HISTART 2901 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Bird Flight, Death Masks, Celluloid
13 Feb 2017
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Nineteenth century antecedents and the myth of total cinema (1830-1893) Magic lanterns, motion toys, and recording motion with still photography--how cinema developed gradually. Readings: 1-9; 10-40; 41-67received handout #1 (acts as a map for the material in our class references; also acts as a synopsis--a study guide. The idea of entertaining people with images projected goes back centuries. 19th century magic lantern show --where photos were projected on walls. Different discs (of images) placed behind the lens; light projected the image onto the wall. Images were not photographs--they were hand-drawn or painted. Artists & inventors still not skilled enough to produce moving pictures, so they. Thaumatrope decided to produce small objects of scene. Had one disc with an image on both sides of the disk. The image would move by the turning of fingers. The image created can be called a virtual creation. Must hold up to a mirror & spin in order to view the moving image(s).
