FILM 2401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Motion Picture Patents Company, Thomas Edison, Eadweard Muybridge
17 Oct 2016
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The horse in motion (1878: wanted to know if the horse"s hooves/legs were always on the ground or if there was a moment where it was in the air. The answer: it was in the air completely for a brief moment. Made a kinetoscope (1893): continuous moving pictures. Only one person could see a film at a time because of how it was created, so it wasn"t very popular. The first ten or fifteen years of the movie exhibition was characterized by the working class patronage. Arrival of immigrants from south and eastern europe: the universal language of silent film. Early films were short in length (one minute) 1907 narrative film becomes the dominate form in the us. Documentaries were one of the first types to be made: this was a fictional film that would replace the documentaries of the past. George vallie: father of modern science-fiction: half indoor and half outdoor. The black hand (1906) first mafia film.
