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Cinema of attraction

Undoing the norm of story-telling Limited resources  creativity, inventiveness Maximizing every component of cinema The frame line: from passive demarcation of space for attention to active use Where to put the camera to maximize depth of field Put on wheels (vehicles)

Undoing the norm of story-telling Limited resources  creativity, inventiveness Sources of inspiration staging a slice of life, pictorial rendering, capturing on celluloid actual human activities, a performance just for fun More…

Undoing the norm of story-telling Where to allow viewing: Kinetoscope and other optical tools On a train (Hale’s Tours) In the fairground Part of a variety theatre (vaudeville show) program – inserted between other types of performance spectacles Café Exhibition of technology

The variety of optical tools/toys/apparatuses

Phenakistiscope disc with images of successive phases of movement

Phenakistiscope a phenakistoscope disc by Eadweard Muybridge (1893) + simulated mirror view of the same disc image

Zoopraxiscope 1879 / British photographer Eadweard Muybridge projecting a series of images in successive phase of movement obtained by multiple cameras

Chronophotographe French physiologist Etienne-Jules Marey / continuous roll of film to produce a sequence of still images

Man in the black suit with striping and points for chronophotography, 1883 E.J. Marey, Geometric Chronophotograph of the man in the black suit, 1883

Kinetoscope patented 1888, completed 1892 / 18” x 27” 4 feet (high)

Kinetoscope / patented 1888, first public demonstration 1891, completed 1892 / 18” x 27” 4 feet (high)

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