Chapter 6 Flashcards
Leland Stanford
California govenor had help from Muybridge
zoopraxiscope
a machine for projecting slides onto a distance surface
Eadweard Muybridge
created the zoopraxiscope
persistence of vision
images our eyes gather are retained in the brain for a short period of time
William Dickson
created kinetograph
George Eastman
easy to use camera
Hannibal Goodwin
celluloid roll film
Joseph Nicephore Niepce
created photography
Louis Daguerre
introduced daguerreotype
daguerreotype
process of recording images on polished metal plates
William Henry Fox Talbot
introduced calotype
calotype
created negatives, used translucent paper, more sensitive than daguerreotype
kinetoscope
peep show device created by Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison built
the first motion picture studio in NJ
cinemtographe
device that both photographed and projected action
George Melies
first to make a narrative motion picture and to tell a story
Edwin Porter
The Great Train Robbery (1903) - first movie to use editing, cutting scenes, and a mobile camera to tell a story
montage
tying together two separate but related shots in a such a way to make a unified meaning
D. W. Griffith
The Birth of Nation, made lots of money
double feature
two movies on the same bill
B movie
less expensive movie
vertical integration
studios produce their own films, distribute them, and show them in their own theaters
block booking
buying a lot of movies but one jumps out as having great success, having a bunch of less great things to help one stand out more than others
Three component system of film
production, distribution, exhibition
