Media, Information and Technoculture 2000F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Sound Film, Kathryn Bigelow, Proving Ground
22 Dec 2016
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Original intentions for moving picture technology different than its later developments. Early american cinema is shaped by the social and historical conditions of its society: urbanization, immigration, etc. Canadian film emerges in response to the developments of american cinema. Film real events and broke them down frame by frame to understand it better. Eadweard muybridge, 1877 -> built on the ideas of marey. Zoopraxiscope circular disc with images around it when its illuminated it projects images so when it spins it creates an image of the horse in motion. Kinetograph: moving picture camera, 1892 (dickson did the work) Kinetoscope: peep hole viewing machine, 1893 -> to use it people had to bend over (before projection -> seeing the filmstrip itself) 35 mm b/w motion picture (15 sec) Ediso(cid:374) (cid:862)studio(cid:863) -> tar paper shack in new jersey (first film studio) Initially very popular (actors want to see themselves being captured even though there was only.
