CNPH 21400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Kinetoscope, Movable Type
19 Mar 2016
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1893 photography was invented photography reproduced reality. Persistence of vision: there is a lag in your eyesight that allows pictures to blend together. This rich guy named stanford bet someone that when his horses ran, they took all our feet off the groung. Muybridge set up 24 cameras on the track and there was a string attached to all of them. When the horse pulled the string, the camera would take a picture. Edison adapts it to use in his motion picture camera. April 23 1896 1st time in the us that a movie was projected. Curve of adoption: how fast does something move through society. 1440 gutenburg invents printing press by moveable type. 1700 first newspaper the us wasn"t settled yet. 1833 1st mass circulation newspaper (400 year curve of adoption) 1st motion picture theater 1905 in pittsburgh pa. Curve of adoption for movies = 10 years. Dec 1928 first recorded projection of film.
