FILM TV 106A Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Eadweard Muybridge, Motion Picture Patents Company, Thomas Edison
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Wanted to solve question of whether a horse kept one foot on the ground or not. Got a series of sequential race horse photos. Created the (cid:272)a(cid:373)era gu(cid:374) to take fil(cid:373) of (cid:271)ird"s flight. Created kinetograph first motion picture camera. The black maria was a studio build to shoot movies inside. Creates the motion picture patent company and attempts a monopoly. Creates american biograph co: competed with edison and patented their own cameras and technology, used similar but different technology (70mm instead of 35mm) First to screen projected motion pictures: edison kinetoscope was a peephole thing that could only be watched by one person at a time. Create the cinematographe, could shoot, develop, and project: stuart blackton. Dominant form of mass entertainment in the us. Series of unconnected variety acts done in a theatre. Movies are part of the show, but not the whole show or even a dominant part.
