FILM 1000 Lecture Notes - Film Theory, Jacques Rivette, Potemkin Stairs
6 Dec 2013
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Elements of film & style preconditions of cinema. Empiricism: scientific & philosophical interest in what is real. Urbanization: amusement parks for working families to continue to sped money, visual entertainment became popular. Before carnivals people would go to the morgue: aug. 1886 150 000 went through morgue to see corpse of dead girl, seeing bodies was way to be fascinated with life after death. 2 trends: desire to record reality, desire to create different reality. Several technological developments: improvements in photography, invention of celluloid, strip flexible & strong enough to run through cameras & projectors, improved engineering of projectors. Continuous technological evolution: chemical process, film stock, film gauge (width), colour . Thomas a. edison/william dickson (1893: kinetoscope. 1st public screening dec. 28/1895, paris: at grand caf , boulevard des capucines. Visual space constructed from foreground to background. Single camera position but nit single shot. Single frame animation: possibility to create new reality.
