DESMA 8 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Eadweard Muybridge, Sergei Eisenstein, Thomas Edison
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C h a p t e r 5 : c i n e m a. Mid 1600s, long before cinema technology: magic lantern shows. Eadweard muybridge: san francisco photographer (full gallop horses not touching ground) Thomas edison: stop-and-go disk mechanism ( rst practical system for shooting and displaying lm) Alice guy-blache: the rst director ( rst ctional narratives, the cabbage. Fairy, 50 seconds long, early pioneer in special effects, masking, double ex- Fairy, 50 seconds long, early pioneer in special effects, masking, double ex- posure and synchronized sound) George melies: a trip to the moon (early special effects) As the commercial prospects for lm mushroomed, the topics became so- cially riskier. Vice lms outraged moralists in the media. Move away from the east coast to california (room for creative expansion) D. w. grif th: birth of a nation (most innovative, controversial lm of the si- lent era ~1915) Lois weber: the blot (leading female director ~1920)