FILM 2401- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 18 pages long!)
11 Oct 2017
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The scientific impulse scientists began working toward projecting images of objects in motion. Part of the impulse is apparent in the drawings of animals in motion on cave walls of prehistoric ancestors capturing the motion of the world began in industrial age. Emergence of photography in 1830s the development of photography was part of a broader cultural/scientific impulse that came out of the enlightenment tradition of scientific enquiry. What we now called documentary films- called actualities- made up the bulk of films in this period. Many of these mvoies were scenes of everyday life or significant world events the rise of fictional or narrative films became the dominant film after 1907. 1877 took 12 cameras and put them into a line to photograph the horse in motion and to see if the horse lifts all four legs off the ground at the same time. 12 individual photographs shown over and over again.
