FILM 2401 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Patent Infringement, Melodrama, Eadweard Muybridge
28 Nov 2012
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Film, television, & american society: lectures on the media & on empire [notes] Major factors in the 1980"s that allowed the motion pictures to take off: (1) almost simultaneous refinement of a number of technologies by scientists and inventors that made the movies possible (2) the rise of mass urban populations. Demand for cheap entertainment for new urban industrial working class. Impulse is apparent in the drawing of animals in motion on the cave walls of our prehistoric ancestors. They tried to create the illusion of realistic motion through the manipulation of images: the magic lantern, the fantasmagorie, the stereopticon and serial photography. Documentary films (called actualities then) made up the bulk of films of this period. Eadweard muybridge employed a process that comes closest to resembling the technology we now call cinema or the movies. 1877: muybridge conducted an experiment to answer whether a horse, in full stride, lifts all of its four legs off the ground.
