HIST200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: U.S. Route 3, Birt Acres, Thomas Armat
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Preconditions: magic lantern: projected lantern slides to show images on a wall or screen, optical toys: gave illusion of movement using drawings, motion studies: eld in science designed to study human and animal movement. Eadward mubridge: motion studies pioneer, some consider him the father of motion pictures, photographed a horse in motion to resolve a bet. Beginning of the study of sequences of animals and humans in motion. Created the world"s rst movie project (zoopraxiscope) using the images. Etienne-jules marey: developed the rst camera" (captured 20 images on paper) Spectators watched the lms through a peep hole in the box. Lecture note: history 200: opened kinetoscope parlours where people could buy a kinetoscope and a phonograph that was roughly synced up to the image to play music while the viewer watched the. Max and emil skladowsky: invented the bioscopy. Held two strips of lm side by side, frames were projected alternately (moving images)
