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Conall Hardesty Tommy Looney Hopefully Sean Grace Patrick Butler Origins Of Film
Conall HardestyTommy Looney
Hopefully Sean GracePatrick Butler
Origins Of Film
Brief History and Technology of Early Film
The Magic Lantern is an early type of image projector.
Uses photographs or images painted on glass .Was able to show slight motion during the slide
show.Cameras could be built on top of each other to
show motion. Leavers were also made on the machine to
allow the user to give motion to the picture showing.
Magic Lantern
How it Worked?
Lens Tube
Reflector
Lamp
Slide
The lamp is the source of illumination.
The reflector reflects light from the lamp onto a condensing lens which focuses light on the slide being shown.
The lens tube magnifies the illuminated slide onto a darkened wall.
The Praxinoscope was an animation device.It used strips of pictures placed around the
inner surface of a spinning cylinder.An inner cylinder of mirrors was placed
inside this producing the illusion of motion from the strips pictures.
Praxinoscope
Example of the Praxinoscopewww.youtube.com/watch?v=xOItdZOGnx8?su
bject=Praxinoscope
How is Worked?
Designed by Thomas Edison in 1888.It was designed for films to be viewed
individually through the window of a cabinet .It created the illusion of movement by rapidly
passing a film between a lens and an electric light blub.
The viewer looked through a peep hole where a spinning wheel would show 46 frames per second.
Kinetoscope
Diagram of KinetoscopePeephole
Film
Light bulb
Lens
Brief History and Technology of Film part 2
The cinematographe was developed by the lumiere brothers in the 1890’s.
It is believed that the Lumiere’s first conceptualised the idea.
The cinematographe was the foundation for the motion picture camera.
It could record, develop and project motion pictures.
Louis Lumiere’s Camera
Lumiere’s Camera
Edwin S Porter was a groundbreaking film director/producer.
Porter was film editing pioneer utilising “cross-cutting” and close ups.
His film “The Great Train Robbery” is considered to be origin of the western motion picture.
It featured composite editing, cross cutting, double exposure, camera movement and on location shooting.
Edwin S Porter
The Moviola allows a film editor to view film while editing.
It was invented by Ivan Serrurier in 1924 and was used as the first machine for motion picture editing.
It allows film editors to view individual shots.Moviola’s were standard for western film
editing up to the 1970’s.Horizontal flatbed systems became more
common often the 1970’s.
The Moviola
Vertical Systems
Flat bed System
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