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| shared features of 19th century forms of popular entertainment that influenced moving pictures |
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1. Heavy reliance on either new scientific discoveries or new technologies
2. A blending of science and learning with magic or illusion
3. Emphasis on spectacle [1.spectacle- the display of impressive or astonishing sights meant to have heightened impact on vision]
4. Emphasis on variety
5. Emphasis on sensation |
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1st and most important amusement park
-Moral sphere of coney island important in relation to film.
-allowed people to escape social/moral pressure
-catered to middle/working class entertainment features
-leave propriety and inhibition at the door; no real decorum
-general atmosphere of laughter and frivolity created by practical jokes, humiliation, etc.
-everyday world made completely strange and unpredictable |
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-early prototype of light projector
-projected images from hand painted slides onto opaque backgrounds or smoke
-could make images disappear, shrink, grow, move closer/farther, etc.
-eventually, photos replaced slides and candle light was replaced by lime light and then bulb |
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1.a transition between 2 images and 2 scenes where the first fades out, the 2nd gradually fades in with some overlap between the 2
[created by magic lanterns; used to show change in time] |
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early motion picture exhibition device
-"peep hole" viewer
-Edison put them in his parlors
-satisfy curiosity of new technology and scientific discoveries
-fit into popular phase of variety
-allowed audiences to repeat and experience over and over again (associate with mass culture)
-satisfy desire for shocking and sensational thrills (i.e. displays of male/female body, violence)
-choice of material strategic—emphasized motion and outlawed actions |
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film camera developed by Lumière brothers
they debuted this at Salon Indience of Grand Café in Paris on December 1895
film camera, projector and film developer |
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Film projection device originally developed by Thomas Armat, yet royalties were bought by Edison.
Replaced the Kinetoscope
allows for larger audience |
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Film maker, business man and inventor
-created kinetoscope and was responsible for their mass production and prosperity (initially in parlors and then in vaudeville houses)
-took credit for creation of vitascope
-head of Biograph company and created [some of the ?] earliest moving pictures |
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First film studio ever built (1892) created by Edison
-created to make film strips for kinetoscope |
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| Edison's first moving picture demonstrations |
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In kinetoscope parlors?? With popular vaudeville stars?? |
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| Overlapping action/overlapping editing |
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Worked on kinetoscope
from 1893-APril 1895 Dickson was produces, director and cameraman for hundreds of brief films distributed by Edison Company to Kinetoscope parlors; Heise was his assistant and was also camera operator on most Edison films
Dickson left and later was a co-founder of the Biograph company |
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| the display of impressive or astonishing sights meant to have heightened impact on vision |
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variety shows with many different acts/performances/routines etc.
based on spectacle and variety |
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| Formal features typical of films made between 1894-1899 |
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1. Composed of a single shot
2. No editing is involved
3. Camera is static (doesn't move)
4. Performers look into the camera (direct address)
5. There is no resolution or closure (the camera just stops) |
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French filmmaker
worked with the cinematograph, and with his brother |
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| Cinematograph at the Grand Café |
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| Lumière brothers debuted the cinematograph at the Grand Café in Paris in December 1895 |
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| Exhibition strategies for debut of "Arrival of a Train" (Lumière 1895) |
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1. Built up the show in advertisements focusing on the machine and technology.
2. At the start of the show, a single picture of a train on the screen is shown in order to limit audiences expectations. The audience began to groan and then...
3. Lumières start projector
4. Began with film that would create maximum visual impact (train angled towards screen)
5. All emphasize perpetual motion, all with an ongoing stream of activity |
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| nonfiction films shot at familiar or notable locations |
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