FST-3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Soviet Montage Theory, French New Wave, Surrealism
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Tradition describes filmmakers who favor same certain choices over others (example: american studio cinema). The technology involved in creating motion pictures was achieved by the early 1890s. The first films were very simple and usually showed scenic places and noteworthy events. Films circulated freely between countries and influenced foreign filmmakers. Narrative form was the dominant type of commercial filmmaking. Photography offered the cheapest and most efficient way to generate the thousands of images needed for a reasonably lengthy show. The invention of photography in 1826 launched a series of discoveries that made cinema possible. Eadweard muybridge american photographer, who took a series of photographs of a running horse by using a series of cameras with glass plate film and fast exposure. Etienne-jules marey french scientist, who invented a camera that recorded 12 separate images on the edge of a revolving disc of film on glass and build the first camera to use a strip of flexible film on paper.
