FILM 2401 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Motion Picture Patents Company, Thomas Edison, Shooting Script
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Main factors needed for a film/exhibition: scientific impulse: creation of photography in 1830"s. > took 12 cameras to take pictures of a horse to see/create the illusion of a film to answer the question. > does a horse"s legs" all ever stay off the floor? (the horse image-1878: social context: Relation: first step to entertainment for the working class. Downfall: only one person can watch at a time because it wasn"t a projector. > first exhibition of projected motion pictures in paris was around 1895. Movies were seen as 30s in length (short films) and everyday life scenes [term documentary was not discovered yet. Fictional films began in 1907 and replaced short films in 1 min length. Documentaries were introduced and not replacing fictional films. Audience: working class and immigrants; europeans came to the us and. People wrote own music for their own films (large step for music)
