MUSIC246 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: There Was A Crooked Man, Thomas Edison, Kinetoscope
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Realization that if close images were shown at high enough sped up enough, it would look like it was moving. The brain would fill in the blanks. The zoopraxiscope (1879) - project several images to present the illusion of movement: the conjuring 2 - crooked man. Thomas edison: the kinetoscope (1891) peephole viewer with a continuous loop of film. Technically the inventor of moving pictures, but it was a singular experience (one person at a time: the kinetophone (1895) a kinetoscope with a phonograph installed in the box. Problem with synchronization - two separate motors running the two parts of the kinetophone. The music and images would not be able to match up, so generic music was used. The lumiere brothers, paris december 28th 1895: created the first device to project film onto a wall so multiple people could watch together.
