HUMA 2740 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Auguste And Louis Lumière

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4 May 2018

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HUMA 2740

Lecture 1

Why did the movies appear in the late 19th century?

A number of factors came together in 1890s allowing motion

pictures to take off:

1) The Scientific Impulse

a. Captures imagination of society

b. Ability to record world and desire to develop

technologies to understand the world

c. Push for technology (for science)

2) The social Context – industrialization, urbanization and the

need for cheap entertainment for new working class

a. New forms of and mass entertainment

b. People paying money for entertainment (e.g. services,

theatres, amusement parks)

c. Society going under mass industrialization (e.g. cities

appear) – work is long (long hours) and people want to

relax

d. Science and tech and need for entertainment come

together

- Photographs appear in late 18th century (around 1930) –

recording the world

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