Where do you start?  You start with a rapid overview of the beginnings.  It may not be pretty, but it’s effective.Preconditions for Motion Pictures

understand human eye and how it perceives motion – Zoetrope

critical flicker fusion & short-range apparent motion

capacity to project rapid series of images on a surface – magic lanterns use photography to make successive pictures – split second exposure print images on flexible base to pull through camera – George Eastman (1889) intermittent mechanism (shutter)

Contributors to Invention Thomas Edison & W.K.L. Dickson

Kinetograph & Kinetoscope (1891) Black Maria

Louis & Auguste Lumière

invented commercially viable projector – Cinématographe shot films @ 16 fps

R.W. Paul & Brit Acres

sold equipment rather than lease like Edison

If you want more information view Origins and Origins Continued We also created a listing for things to consider when discussing film.  Although the list is very important, it is a list that we will be discussing in specific throughout the class.  That means that I’m not putting it up here, mainly because we will be going over each term later. You may have noticed a few terms in red, those are items that you will see in the final (or at least have the potential of seeing). Next Wednesday we will discuss more about the phases of film and also have our first screening.