RTA 180 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Studio System, Kinetoscope, American Inventor
26 Mar 2015
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Focused on people, city, life and important events. Created a heightened sense of reality movies: Blacksmithing scene (1893) (thomas edison) (1st film ever created, no sound) The gay shoe clerk (1903): theres a cut and insert then a cut (very first shot at editing) (no women, guys dressed up as women) He wanted to combine the phonograph with moving pictures. Phonograph was the earliest release to play music. First photographer to develop camera shutter (important for capturing motion) A peephole viewer for a single person to observe moving pictures. First kinetoscope parlour established in new york (1894) Movie: luis martinetti, contortionist (example of the kinetoscope) . 20 cents given to actors (caicedo, ring of the slack wire) (example of the kinetoscope filmed in the backyard of edition s studio. Necessary to create a steady stream of new films. A kinetoscope with a phonograph placed in its cabinet. Projecting films to an audience rather than one person.
