CIN374Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Thomas Edison, Film Stock, Cinemascope
19 Mar 2019
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Like synchronized sound and coloured film, wide gauge film stock had been available since the. Its success can be traced to the business practices of thomas edison and george eastman, who oversaw the innovation and diffusion of 35mm stock. Cinema"s machines evolve in a linear fashion, independent of technological, economic, social and ideological forces. Bazin wrote about the gradual perfection of cinematic forms and technique ***it was new and imperfect, but still new and so better than whatever had come before. French theorist jean-louis comolli"s writings on cinema, ideology, and technology are largely responsible for this so-called materialist position. He suggested that cinema was a social machine, determined by ideology. Cinema technology is less about the equipment than the social profitability of such apparatuses. Ideology of the visible and the effacement of the apparatus. Technological change does not occur until there is some sort of social demand. Technological, economic and ideological demands function in conflict and harmony.
