Early cinema 1890s - 1913 1890s Edison’s Kinetoscope 1895-1905 Lumières Late 1890s Méliès makes first films 1902 - Melies’s Trip to the Moon 1904 -1912.

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Early cinema 1890s s Edison’s Kinetoscope Lumières Late 1890s Méliès makes first films Melies’s Trip to the Moon experiments with narrative By about narrative system established

Some popular types of early films Actualities, Travel logs Stories based upon current events Blue Movies & Pornography for Peep shows Trick films Gag or physical humor films

Méliès - Interested in appearance and disappearance - The ability of cinema to make things visible/invisible - Used camera like a magic trick -Films play with presence and absence -Also, thematize technology and machine- produce images

Méliès - Subversion of natural order of things, materiality, -Upsets hierarchies of nature, physics, gender, class -Irreverent stance towards science -Mocks/quotes travel logs, actualities

Méliès vs the Lumières The magician The documenters Fantasy/ Sci-FiRealism Mise-en-scene Photographic base TrickeryRecording life special fx Creative Purely manipulationobservational -deforming the real-respect for the real

The Shot

Diegesis = the total world of the film’s story

Diegetic vs. Non-Diegetic

On-Screen Space and Off-Screen Space

Méliès vs. The Lumière Bros.

AUTARKY or UNICITY of the frame

Non-Centered Quality of the Image

Camera Distance (almost always a medium-long shot)

Non-closure and a Fundamental Non-linearity

FRONTALITY

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