POL 128 Lecture Notes - Mathew Brady, Political Cinema, Oligopoly
16 Dec 2012
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Early history of american film history: rise of cinema, movies had there origin in photography, reason called movies because its moving pictures. He became famous because he photographed first world war. One of the best documentary film made uses his pictures, called civil war history. Used still photographs for the movie: motion picture was formed at the time of the industrial revolution, edward muybridge (1877) Given credit for coming up with the first moving picture. Photographed a moving horse, a sequence of pictures of horse running: marey (1880"s) Problem with projector is the moving images was shaky and unclear: william dickson. Solved the problem of the first project. Came up with the idea of how the film would stay still for the first projector creating clearer image and not shaking. The films were only 90 seconds or realistic things like a cow walking around the very first kinetiscope parlor was opened in america.
