SOSC 3130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Motion Picture Patents Company, Thomas Edison, Eadweard Muybridge
20 Apr 2016
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Us started in 1896 but in a span of several years, all industrial countries in. Europe and na had the ability to display movies to movie-goers. Hired by leeland stanford (stanford university) to carry out a study: when a horse is in motion, does its limbs leave the ground entirely at any point. The horse in motion, 1878 placed cameras that were triggered as the horse was going along to capture the horse"s motion; series of still photographs projected at a certain speed to give the illusion of movement. Important breakthrough other inventors began to work on creating ways of showing motion. Kinetoscope (1893) machine that allows people to see motion pictures. One drawback: only one person can see it at a time, so not commercially viable: great novelty. Discovered how to project motion pictures to a large audience first exhibition of such. 1895 workers exiting the factory and arrival of a train at la ciotat (lumiere bros)
