COMM 1011 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Motion Picture Patents Company, Hannibal Goodwin, Thomas Edison
31 Mar 2016
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Early technology and the evolution of movies: the development of film, muybridge and goodwin make pictures move. The development stage began when inventors starting manipulating photographs to make them appear to move while simultaneously projecting them on a screen. Other inventors were also working on capturing moving images and projecting them. Vitascope: a large-screen system that enabled filmstrips of longer lengths to be projected without interruption and hinted at the potential of movies as a future mass medium: the introduction of narrative, narrative films: movies that tell stores. Earliest narrative films were produced by a french magician and inventor. Began producing short fantasy and fairy tale films. Usually a piano player added live music. Entrepreneurs began to seek more affluent spectators by making them. In 1925, a business merger between paramount and publix gave zukor enormous influence over movie exhibition.
