Film History Before 1920

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Film History Before 1920
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Important Concept in Movies

• Persistence of Vision
• Visual phenomenon that a series of individual
  still pictures set into motion create the
  illusion of movement.

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Innovations Necessary for the Advent of Cinema

• Toys
• Thaumatrope

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Innovations Necessary for the Advent of Cinema

• Toys
• Fantascope

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Innovations Necessary for the Advent of Cinema

• Toys
• Zootrope

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Innovations Necessary for the Advent of Theater

• Toys
• Flipbooks

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Innovations Necessary for the Advent of Cinema

• Photography (1839) Louis Daguerre
• Edweard Muybridge (1877)
• BetHorses12 Cameras with trip wires.

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Innovations Necessary for theAdvent of Cinema

• Thomas Edison1877 assigned the project of motion
  picture to William Dickson, who created the first
  motion picture camera. No projector at that time.

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Innovations Necessary for the Advent of Film

• KinetoscopesPeepshow Viewers
• Nickelodeons

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Innovations Necessary for the Advent of Cinema

• Mutoscope---Flip Cards---Dickson---Biograph
  Company

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Innovations Necessary for the Advent of Cinema

• 1896The Lumiere Brothers in France create the
  first projector. Cinematographe

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The First Feature Films

• The first American movie that attempted to tell a
  complete story was
• The Great Train Robbery

1903 10 minutes 14 scenes Model for Westerns
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The First Feature Films

• The first movie that proved that movies could
  rise to the level of art was D.W. Griffiths
• The Birth of a Nation
• 1915
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