CTCS 200g Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Move, Photographic Plate

• School: USC
• Department: Cinema and Media Studies
• Course: CTCS 200g
• Professor: Kemper Tomas

Document Summary

History of the international cinema 1 (origins - ww2) 50 years of cinema in 15 weeks images on screen- related to transportation / movement. Cluster of arts, technologies, and industries devoted to motion pictures based in cinematography: Photography photo: light, graph: write writing with light . The history of cinema is a history of movement (especially during the rst 50 years, 1895-1945) leading up to ww2, movies emphasized movement theme. 1905 > connection between vehicular tech, and cinema tech: 1905: patent diagram for hale"s pleasure railway (aka hale"s tours ) device that looks like trainer but stays in one place sit in train car, watch a movie on projector, train car moves like ride. Regardless of genre, budget, or national origin, the movies continue to be about movement. Movement structures the whole story space travel, the road trip movie, Moment and movement both come from momentum a historical moment is not static : always moving/changing.