Media, Information and Technoculture 2000F/G Study Guide - Nell Shipman, Edison Studio, The Saturday Evening Post
19 Mar 2014
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Kinetograph and kinetoscope: w. k. l dickson/thomas edison, kinetograph: moving picture camera, 1892, kinetoscope, columbian exposition, chicago, 1893. 1. 35 mm black and white motion picture (15 sec: dancers, acrobats, prize fighters, vaudeville performers, edison studio" supplied films, disappeared by 1900. Inventing the projector: francis jenkins/thomas armat basic principle est by 1895, auguste/louis lumiere cinematograph in paris 1895, w. k. l dickson/herman casler biograph in 1896. Showings: phase one; 1895-1905: vaudeville movies novelty acts chasers", penny arcades owners buy/rent projectors, regular film screenings, traveling shows- traveling exhibitors, tent shows. Nickelodeons 1905-1918: films only continuous showings, growth 1914: 18,000 us, 2. 7 million daily admissions, longer films 10 to 15 minutes, one reel westerns and melodramas. Industrialization: urbanization, more disposable income, more leisure time. Low culture: arcades, dance halls, vaudeville, saloon, pool hall, minstrel shows, burlesque theatre. Nickelodeon/low culture: poor sanitation smells, overcrowding, outside barkers, handbills, lights, darkness and morality, raunchy vaudeville opening acts. The story of film 1998: nickelodeons, stars/star system, studio system/studio control.
