ARTH 271 Lecture Notes - Edison'S Black Maria, Kinetoscope, Louis Daguerre
Document Summary
Effects come and go but the story is what makes it so great the drive of most art, to reproduce the world. Persistence of vision-images stay in your retina for a few seconds after you see that image. Phi phenomena-we see things that are not always there. For example, spin the color wheel really fast and our eyes see brown. We are seeing movies at 24 frames per second. Toy called the thaumentrope used this phenomenon. It was a light source, a whealding rod that would light up on the end. Took a series of 20 photos to determine this. Negatives were on glass so they weren"t very durable. Celluloaid film was then discovered as a type of flexible negatives (1887). Big clumsey camera which had to stay in a studio because it was so large: in 1893, the black maria studio was invented. The shack was on a circular railroad track.
