ARH 2000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Menlo Park, California, Kuselan, Eadweard Muybridge
1 Mar 2020
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The birth of cinema - cinema is a logical extension of photography. Defined as the production of movies as an art/industry. If a camera takes rapid successions of photos of a moving subject, the illusion of movement can be created. This is made possible by persistence of vision, the brief retention of an img in the retina of our eyes after the stimulus is removed. The first practical film camera was invented in 1891 at the thomas edison lab in menlo. Park, california; it used a long strip of photographic film. In the early days, it was not accepted as an art form and was used for practical use as a mechanical recording device or as brief narration of stories. The technology for sound was not available yet, so silent films were accompanied by music, usually an in-house piano. Silent cinema - most of the power of cinema comes from the ability to reconstruct time.
