Media, Information and Technoculture 2000F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Eadweard Muybridge, Cinema Of The United States, Kinetoscope
18 Dec 2015
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Original intentions for moving picture technology different than its later developments conditions of its society. Early american cinema is shaped by the social and historical. Canadian film emerges in response to the developments of. Film developed out of photography, a continuation of. Thought these pictures could show things human eyes aren"t. Eadweard muybridge, 1877, builds on etienne jules marey"s idea, he was a landscape photographer hired to capture horses in motion through trip wire shutter triggers, illusion of motion through ordered pictures. W. k. l dickson/thomas edison create the kinetograph, which is the moving picture camera and the kinetoscope, which is a peep hole viewing machine. Kinetoscope 35 mm b/w motion picture (15 seconds) dancers, acrobats, prize fighters performance, disappeared by 1900. Francis jenkins/thomas armat create the basic principle on which the projector operates, create illumination technology. Auguste & louise lumiere they really create the technology behind the projector, cinematograph in paris. Vaudeville movies as novelty acts, eventually used as chasers.
