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Undoing the norm of story-telling
Limited resources creativity, inventiveness
Maximizing every component of cinemaThe frame line: from passive demarcation of
space for attention to active useWhere to put the camera to maximize depth
of fieldPut 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
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Undoing the norm of story-telling
Where to allow viewing:
Kinetoscope and other optical toolsOn a train (Hale’s Tours)In the fairgroundPart of a variety theatre (vaudeville show) program
– inserted between other types of performance spectacles
Café Exhibition of technology
Phenakistiscopedisc with images of successive phases of movement
Phenakistiscopea phenakistoscope disc by Eadweard Muybridge (1893) + simulated
mirror view of the same disc image
Zoopraxiscope1879 / British photographer Eadweard Muybridge
projecting a series of images in successive phase of movementobtained by multiple cameras
ChronophotographeFrench physiologist Etienne-Jules Marey /
continuous roll of film to produce a sequence of still images
ChronophotographeFrench 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, first public demonstration 1891, completed 1892 / 18” x 27” 4 feet (high)