Zoetrope 1834 Zoetrope What are these what was their purpose? Why make this?

Muybridge Cameras Can you infer how it works?

This is an iconic Picture: Why? 1872

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heRuLp7CyTM Muybridge and a bet. Muybridge's biographical details are colorful. Born Edward Muggeridge in 1830 at Kingston upon Thames, upriver from London, he was unsatisfied with life in this small English town, and by 1850 he had left to make his fortune in the United States. Little is known about him until he arrived in San Francisco, California, five years later. In 1855, the city of San Francisco had been settled only six years prior, and it provided the wide-open possibilities for which the young man was looking. After a short time as a bookseller, and a change to the more striking name by which he is known today, he took up photography from a daguerreotypist and worked for the photographer Carleton Watkins. He made coastal surveys, and soon he had gained renown as a photographer from his spectacular images of Yosemite and Alaska. His most famous work began in 1872, when he was hired by Leland Stanford (later the founder of Stanford University) to photograph horses. Stanford reputedly had made a bet that for a moment, all four of a racehorse's hooves are off the ground simultaneously, and he hired Muybridge to take the pictures to prove him right. This was difficult to do with the cameras of the time, and the initial experiments produced only indistinct images. The photographer then became distracted when he discovered that his young wife had taken a lover and may even have had their child by him. Muybridge tracked down the lover and shot and killed him. When Muybridge stood trial, he did not deny the killing, but he was nonetheless acquitted. Muybridge left San Francisco and spent two years in Guatemala. On his return, Muybridge resumed his photography of horses in motion, this time far more successfully. He set up a row of cameras with tripwires, each of which would trigger a picture for a split second as the horse ran by. The results settled the debate once and for all: all four hooves do leave the ground at once, as the top middle image in this sequence demonstrates.

Film in a roll.

Black Maria

The Lumiere Brothers 1894 The Lumière family is the biggest manufacturer of photographic plates in Europe A Local kinetoscope exhibitor asks brothers Louis and Auguste to make films which are cheaper than the ones sold by Edison. Louis and Auguste design a camera which serves as both a recording device and a projecting device. They call it the Cinématographe. The Cinématographe uses flexible film cut into 35mm wide strips and used an intermittent mechanism modeled on the sewing machine. The camera shot films at sixteen frames per second (rather than the forty six which Edison used), this became the standard film rate for nearly 25 years. 1894 During this year Woodville Latham and his sons Otway and Gray began working on their own camera and projector.

Read the Article and as a group Give the most accurate definition of Realism Give the most accurate definition of Formalism Present your “Connection Chain”. Give evidence of why you categorized your film as one or the other.

Search for the definition of Mise-en-Scene Explain how Melies became the “first master” of the Mise-en –Scene technique.

What World History Occurrence had an Impact in Early Filmmaking Can you infer how? wwI.. It stopped cinematography in Europe since they were at war. Movies were not circulating freely from country to country.

Why would the United States Emerge as the Dominant force of film making during this time? No war in its shores. The creation of Edison’s Motion Picture Patents Company (MPPC) based in Chicago, New Jersey and New York

Move to California Weather, away from MPPC , birth of Hollywood Studios

If these painting were “frames in a painting how would you classify them in the realism to formalism spectrum. Give specific examples.

Definition of “Classical”in Art

Definition of Classical in Film

Development of Editing Techniques Porter: How is he different from Melies D.W Griffith: his collaboration

Journal Entry # 6 These are some of the basic shots we need to convey meaning. Your eye is the camera. Mention each shot and make an inference of how you would convey meaning with that particular shot. 1._____________________________ 2._____________________________ 3._____________________________ 4._____________________________ 5._____________________________ 6._____________________________ 7._____________________________ 8._____________________________ 9._____________________________

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1IK2_3788OYrG9Ge3TqI-Yan6Zf8s-btB9ek5M1SGREk/edit#slide=id.p5 Types of shots and their meaning

Mini Project

The Thief of Bagdad How does it comply with the “Classical Hollywood” definition

Make a Visual of Realism Classicism Formalism