CAS EN 175 Lecture 1: EN 175 01:19:16

• School: Boston University
• Department: English
• Course: CAS EN 175
• Professor: Leland Monk

Document Summary

Persistence of vision theory: when an image is shown, it stays in the retina for a fraction of a second longer. Zoetrope: cylinder that spins with pictures on the insides to show continuous motion. Dickson: made kinetoscope (machine that allowed you to view a movie). Edison made it so that you could pay 1 penny to crank it, but only 1 person could watch at a time, and not the whole movie. With kinetoscope, there were gears that made the pictures stop for a fraction of a second so that images did not blur together. Lumiere brothers: french, first projected motion pictures, realism december 28 1895: first projected motion pictures, and charged $ to get into theater. Georges melies: a trip to the moon , first film-maker to make unrealistic, fantasy films. First person to tell a continuous story with his films. He distributed his films with a voiceover so you can understand the story.