Media, Information and Technoculture 2000F/G Study Guide - Final Guide: Milnet, Packet Switching, Transistor Radio
16 Dec 2016
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Dickson/ thomas edison: kinetograph: moving picture camera, 1892. Do for the eye that the phonograph did for the ear: kinetoscope: peep hole viewing machine, 1893, columbian exposition chicago, 1893. Kinetoscope: 35mm b/w motion picture (15 sec) Movement scenes focused on action: dancers, acrobats, prize fighters, vaudeville performers, edison studio". The worlds first film studio: films are communal , dissapear by 1900. Inventing the projector: francis jenkins/ thomas armat, auguste/ louis lumiere. Type of theater, performances, musical acts, joke telling, burlesque. Chaser run a variety of films (short films: movies were just used at beginning and end of, penny arcades shows. Pay a little bit of money to see some films: travelling shows. Nickelodeons (1905-1918: pay a nickel to see a film (continuous loop of films, films only. 7 mil daily admissions: longer films. Started to think of plots and narratives. Leisure and culture early 1900s: high vs. low culture, low.
