MUSIC 2F03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Musical Ensemble, Edwin S. Porter, Eadweard Muybridge
29 Jan 2018
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Eadweard muybridge: leading photographer, developed shutter for the camera. Thomas edison: thomas edison wanted to create a new art form by combining the phonograph with moving pictures, focused on kinetoscope, controlled the marketplace. The kinetoscope (1891: edison and muybridge cooperative venture offer but declined by. The kinetophone (1895: a kinetoscope with a phonograph placed in its cabinet, the chimes at normandy. Edison"s version was limited by his original goal of combining moving pictures with music played on his phonograph. Other had created a way by projecting films to an audience who were not concerned with using recorded music, used live musicians. La ciotat station: reanactments of historical events. Thomas edison and the vitascope: edision abandoned the peephole approach due to the popularity of public viewings, vitascope sold it to theaters and they continued with playing music along with it. First moving pictures did not tell stories.
