04:189:102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Eadweard Muybridge, Louis Le Prince, Christiaan Huygens

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Communication and Informatio
• Course: 04:189:102
• Professor: Thelandersson

Document Summary

The development of film: the first mass produced visual medium, relationships, continuous improvement, 5 pre-conditions for film as we know it today. Preconditions for film: persistence of vision - the eye"s ability to retain an action 0. 04 seconds after it"s ended, photography, eadweard muybridge & leland stanford - the horse in motion experiment (1878) Motion picture camera: louis le prince - first motion picture camera using roll film, kennedy laurie dickson & thomas edison - the strip kinetograph (1889) The celluloid film: goodwin vs. eastman, george eastman"s roll film - 1884, hannibal goodwin introduces celluloid - 1889. The projector: thomas edison"s kinetoscope - early 1890s, the cinematograph - the lumiere brothers - 1895, the edison"s vitascope - 1896, muybridge"s zoopraxiscope - 1880. The rise of film: production quality improves. Narrative films: the life of an american fireman, the great train robbery.