04:189:102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Louis Le Prince, Eadweard Muybridge, Sound Film

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Communication and Informatio
• Course: 04:189:102
• Professor: Fredrika Thelandersson

Document Summary

Early attempts to add motion to images. (cid:267)(cid:272)(cid:271)(cid:266)"s: christiaan huygens- magic lantern (thought of as first projector?) Film is the first mass produced visual medium. Relationship (sometimes adversarial, sometimes collaborative) between the skilled and the wealthy. A history of continuous improvement on prior inventions. Five preconditions for film as we know it. The eyes ability to hold motion in place after it has ended. Eadweard muybridge & leland stanford - the horse in motion experiment. Louis le prince - first motion picture camera using roll film. Kennedy laurie dickson & thomas edison - the strip kinetograph. Before celluloid film was roll film, eastman, however unable to be transparent and couldn"t be projected. Limitation: impossible to project to a crowd or audience. Stronger appeal bc it was able to record video, develop film and could project. First to be used to show an audience motion. Narrative films (the life of an american fireman) D. w griffith"s (cid:324)the 7irth of a ation(cid:325)