HISTART 2901 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Peripeteia, Proscenium, West Orange, New Jersey
13 Feb 2017
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The components of film form: developing a cinematic vocabulary: nineteenth century antecedents (1830-1893) Refreshing memory: motion toys represent the ambition of cinema, though not necessarily the origins of it: primitive cinema (1893-1910) Cinema/the media is not used to tell a story, it is not narrative. The films were shown in viewing parlors, vaudeville theaters, and amusement park areas: movies were not given their own place for viewing until later (called the nickelodeons), starting with m li s and porter. An important figure in the development of the incandescent light bulb. Was also important in the development of the phonograph, the antecedent of the. His success in this propelled him towards the search for a record player. means to record movement. With his financial resources and assistants, he developed the kinetograph in his west orange, new jersey lab. He didn"t really invent it, since its rudiments had been invented before. Where edison shot his first movies with his kinetograph.
