MUSCLG 7 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Peter Mark Roget, Eadweard Muybridge, Magic Lantern
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Precursors: shadowgraphy, shadow puppets, magic lantern having still images move on screen, phantasmagoria moves through space, used for horror, stroboscopes like a flip book. Peter mark roget explanation of an optical deception in the appearance of the spokes of a wheel when seen through vertical apertures. Film creates the sense of movement - phenakistoscope uses a spinning disk to create the illusion of motion. Eadweard muybridge: studies of animal locomotion he analyzed racehorse motion, zoopraxiscope: modeled on phenakistiscope. Thomas edison: kinetoscope, motion pictures patents company similar to movie industry. Early films: can"t hear dialogue but can hear music, they are very short no problem with continuity, it is fairly static in terms of action in frame, one kind on movement in one place. Minimal plot, there is a story, a narrative. Aria: difference between onstage and offstage. Demonstrate?) a specific affect: particular musical motives represents certain feelings, leads to practice of leitmotifs.
