birth of film Flashcards
what is a camera obscura?
a dark room with a hole in the wall, projects an image of what is outside upside down onto a wall
when is photography invented?
1820s/1830s
when does high speed photography become standard?
the 1870s
what is Eadweard Muybridge’s Photographic studies of motion and what year was it?
it captures a series of photos of a horse running, year was 1878
since when have flip books/flicker books been around
since the 1860s
how many times do you have to show and wipe out an image per second to allow the viewer to see it “move”?
at least 16 times per second
why can’t the Roundhay Garden scene (1888) be counted as the first movie?
it was printed on paper and was too delicate to be run through a projector
what can be argued to be the first film ever and what year was it released?
Dickson Greeting, 1891
what is a kinetoscope?
Edison’s device for viewing movies, they were watched through an eyepiece and only lasted about 1 min
define the magic lantern principle
shining a light behind a picture on transparent paper can project a large version of the image onto a wall
define the Cinematographe
the Lumiere Brothers’ rival system for viewing movies, used the magic lantern principle to project images onto a screen
define a shot
continually exposed series of frames with no interruption
what are the two options for the first fiction film?
The Cabbage Fairy (1890s) and The Sprinkler Sprinkled (1895)
when do filmmakers start to join shots together?
late 1890s
define cut
the moment at which one shot switches to another
