CCS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Celluloid, Cinematograph, Auguste And Louis Lumière

• School: Stony Brook University
• Department: Cinema and Cultural Studies
• Course: CCS 200
• Professor: Gaboury

Document Summary

Cinematic depth cues: movement within the frame, movement of camera through space linear perspective produced by photographic technology in line with how depth has been artistically represented for almost 700 yr, overlap and size diminution. Projected light: magic lantern (1646): images painted on transparent glass, projected onto a wall or curtain, many formal similarities to cinema (dark theater, fantasy images) Photographic image the realism of the image: not only looks close to life but made from life, cinema is dependent on serial photography film begins when flexible celluloid become possible. Part 1: technology: kinetograph, early motion picture camera, used to photograph movies for in-house experiments and later commercial presentations, kinetoscope, (cid:862)peep sho(cid:449)(cid:863) de(cid:448)ice used to display, black maria first film studio. Auguste and louis lumiere: de(cid:448)eloped a(cid:374) i(cid:373)pro(cid:448)ed (cid:862)ci(cid:374)e(cid:373)atograph(cid:863) that allo(cid:449)ed for (cid:373)ultiple people to simultaneously view a film. I(cid:373)porta(cid:374)t tra(cid:374)sitio(cid:374) that ediso(cid:374) later adopted (cid:449)ith his (cid:862)(cid:448)itascope(cid:863: moved film from arcade trick to mass spectacle.