FS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Long Shot, Magic Lantern, Slide Projector
Document Summary
Properties of optical toys and entertainment: 1) visual spectacle. Phantasmagoria (1798): tells ghost story and has the projector in the back. In fairs, carnivals, and homes by the 1800s; a social ritual: 2) illusion of motion. Zoetrope: precursor to the gif: 3) illusion of 3d reality. 1889 george eastman invents flexible film stock instead of metal plates, which is now able to snake through film camera / projectors. Dec 23, 1895 1st commercial screening of motion pictures produced by the lumi re brothers (actualities) Actualities (non-fiction) and fiction: stylistic features: Non-narrative: the cinema of attractions emphasized: 1) visual spectacle animals, fireworks, acrobatics, special effects. 3) act of looking telescopes/iris shots: narrative is a pretext (excuse) for attractions/stylistic devices in. Cinema of attractions (e. g. , close ups); whereas chc"s narrative dictates style: temporal expansion was prominent as there were no rules of continuity created in early cinema it is considered an attraction.
