The Development of Cinema

Question 1

Michael Angelo

Answer 1

Tries to create movement. He was the only person to create movement

Question 2

Aristotle

Answer 2

• He recorded things
• was a scientist
• theorized about the concept of the “dark chamber”

Question 3

Alhazen

Answer 3

Invented the first pinhole camera called “camera obscura”
-Worlds first scientist

Question 4

Camera Obscura

Answer 4

Latin for “Dark Chamber”

Question 5

Leonardo Da Vinci

Answer 5

May have had a camera obscura to show movement in his paintings

Question 6

Optical Instruments

Answer 6

Most were 1st marketed as toys for children

Question 7

Caravaggio

Answer 7

-May have had a camera obscura for making his realistic photos
- Created side lighting
- was a very bad child
- He cut a whole in his house to create side lighting
- first person to paint fruit

Question 8

Rembrandt

Answer 8

-Used side lighting to emphasize emotion and structure
- Painted the most self portraits
- Heard about caravaggio

Question 9

Richard Avadon

Answer 9

Used side lighting for photos

Question 10

Vermeer

Answer 10

• Used camera obscura
• May have had caterax

Question 11

Magic Lantern

Answer 11

-Early projector
-Movable glass
-Hand painted strips
-Kerosene flames
-Projects image on wall
-Double/triple strips
-Converted from fire to electricity

Question 12

“Steropticon”

Answer 12

First 3D ; Double photos

Question 13

Movie Parlors

Answer 13

Where people would watch the projections

Question 14

Magic Lanterns

Answer 14

Gave the ability to allow people to see other people and places that were far away; people didn’t have to travel to see something.

Question 15

Lightstore

Answer 15

The only place that has all solar

Question 16

Flip cards

Answer 16

-Animation on flip cars were very popular
-Made scientist have to understand the human eye

Question 17

Dr. Peter Mark Roget

Answer 17

-Thaumatrope - “persistence of vision”
-12 pictures per second will trick the eye

Question 18

Zootrope (zoetrope)

Answer 18

-Made by Horner
-See moving images

Question 19

William Henry Fox Talbot

Answer 19

-Still photography
-Permanent negative - got something and could keep chemical plate
-Used “nitrates” which is used in gunpowder
- sit still 2 minutes - creates an image
Negative - Positive

Question 20

Photography

Answer 20

-Hershel
-First used in lecture at London Royal Society

Question 21

Luis Daguerre

Answer 21

-Invented Daguerreotype - Camera Obscura
-Uses mercury

Question 22

Matthew Brady

Answer 22

-U.S Civil war photographer
-Wet plates
-War dead, rocks

Question 23

Jansen

Answer 23

-Astronomer invented “photographic gun”
-Took single “shots” of birds
-shooting birds

Question 24

Edweard Muybridge

Answer 24

-Photographed a moving horse
-Able to capture san Francisco for the first time

Question 25

Jules Marey

Answer 25

-Flexible films -Chronophotography -first to photograph sports -Cinametic graph

Question 26

Gov. Leland Stamford of California

Answer 26

Bet $25,000 that a galloping horse has all four feet off the ground - Won because horses do have all four feet of the ground when they run

Question 27

Muybridge horse

Answer 27

-Set 12,16,24 still cameras at 20ft. intervals -tied individual trip wires to each - was slammed by press because he had to draw the horse first

Question 28

Zoopraxiscope

Answer 28

-2 cameras (2 points of views) -Side and back view

Question 29

Marey + Muybridge

Answer 29

Sports photography

Question 30

Chronophotography

Answer 30

a set of photographs of a moving object, taken for the purpose of recording and exhibiting successive phases of motion

Question 31

Who was trying to create moving pictures

Answer 31

-French -Danes -Germans -Italians -India -Chinese -Japanese -Americans

Question 32

Thomas (Tommy) Edison

Answer 32

-Created the first movie -Accidentally creates the first "camera" -had hearing problems -picked the best sound by rhythm and would bite the table do feel the vibration -Affected sound for a long time because of his hearing problems

Question 33

William Kennedy Laurie Dickson

Answer 33

-Edison's assistant -Invented Kinetoscope - Kinetophone = sound - Kinetograph = camera

Question 34

Fred Ott's Sneeze

Answer 34

-First Film -Recorded by William Dickson

Question 35

The Black Maria

Answer 35

-First Movie Studio -Retractable Roof -Covered in tar paper

Question 36

Andrew Holland

Answer 36

-First "movie parlors" -Poor working immigrants in slums watched short movies after they got off to work -3 minute films -only 1 person can view it -stage actors called it trash

Question 37

Thomas Edison frames

Answer 37

-Tried 50 frames per second -sounded better at 24 frames a second -just recently switched to more frames after digital films

Question 38

John Hyatt

Answer 38

-Celluloid - a flexible plastic sheet used to capture images -First firm stock

Question 39

Eastman Kodak

Answer 39

mass produced celluloid

Question 40

Shooting

Answer 40

Exposes film to light in camera

Question 41

Processor

Answer 41

The negative chemical developed

Question 42

Projector

Answer 42

Light behind the film onto the white screen

Question 43

Frames

Answer 43

like picture frames

Question 44

Where was the first film camera and projector invented?

Answer 44

Paris, Europe

Question 45

Lumiere Brothers

Answer 45

-First camera used as a projector -Cinematographe -Films shown to poor in NYC -Films shown to rich in paris -discovered reversed action -shot first comedy film

Question 46

Actualities

Answer 46

Documentaries

Question 47

The Grand Café

Answer 47

-Hottest night club in Paris -Rich people high class -Commercial

Question 48

Who did Lumiere Brothers hire?

Answer 48

-Hired college students to shoot around the world -they went to Europe, China, Russia, and India

Question 49

Pathe-Friere Co.

Answer 49

-Pack to sell films internationally -Shown in U.S Broadway theaters at Broadway theater prices -First film shown was people coming out of factories

Question 50

George Melies

Answer 50

-France theater director films -Has a theater company -Invents special effects -Discovered he could turn film off and on -Creates science fiction

Question 51

A trip to the Moon

Answer 51

-made by George Melies -Bathing beauties -mocks scientists -creates dissolve from one frame to the next -rocket slams into the eye of the moon -aliens