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(Turn of the 20th Century) Today’s Topic: The 1st Motion Pictures (Turn of the 20th Century)

Pop Quiz 1.) Who is Pop Culture’s Daddy? 2.) Explain why this person can be called the Dad of Pop Culture. 3.) How did the popularity of the car change women’s fashion? 4.) Name 1 other car manufacture in existence during the early 1900s. 5.) What is this class’s definition of Pop Culture?

Turn of the century people now had… More Money! More Free-Time!

Attendance @ Movies 30 million per week FACTS 1900-1919 Population:  92,407,000 Life:  Male 48.4   Female: 51.8 Average Salary  $750 / year Unemployed 2,150,000 Union Membership: 2.1 million Strikes 1,204 Attendance @ Movies 30 million per week Lynchings:  76 Divorce:  1/1,000 Vacation:  12 day cruise  $60 Whiskey $3.50 / gallon, Milk $.32 / gallon

1st movie theaters = Nickelodeons Showed “Adult” films

Who made the first movie??

Early Film…Let’s Watch The First Motion Picture Ever Made? The Horse In Motion (1878) Eadweard Muybridge's

Early Film…Let’s Watch Or was it…Roundhay Garden Scene (1888) Louis Le Prince

Early Film…Let’s Watch Or even… Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory (1895) Louis Lumiere

Early Film…Let’s Watch But undeniably the first popular moving picture show was The Great Train Robbery (1903) Edwin S. Porter

1915: $110,000 to make Made 10 million D.W. Griffith

Teacher Notes The first public test and demonstration of the Lumieres' camera-projector system (the Cinematographe) was made on March 22, 1895, in the Lumieres' basement. They caused a sensation with their first film, Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory (La Sortie des Ouviers de L'Usine Lumiere a Lyon), although it only consisted of an everyday outdoor image - factory workers leaving the Lumiere factory gate for home or for a lunch break

The First Motion Picture Ever Made - The Horse In Motion (1878) Eadweard Muybridge's groundbreaking motion photography was accomplished using multiple cameras and assembling the individual pictures into a motion picture. Muybridge was commissioned by Leland Stanford (California governor/ Stanford University) to scientifically answer a popularly debated question during this era - are all four of a horse's hooves ever off the ground at the same time while the horse is galloping? Muybridge's time-motion photography proved they indeed were, and the idea of motion photography was born. You can watch the 16-frame footage of a horse galloping by clicking HERE.

First Home Movie Ever Made - Roundhay Garden Scene (1888) Early movie history is surrounded in the mists of time, as different competitors developed movie technology simultaneously. However, the Roundhay Garden Scene is thought to be the oldest surviving film on record. The Roundhay Garden Scene was directed by the French inventor, Louis Le Prince and features some members of Le Prince's family playfully walking around a garden. The film lasts about two seconds. To see what is considered to be the first movie ever made, click HERE.