1.Preistoria si inceputurile unei noi arte Flashcards
Which were the main attractions for people la sf. sec XIX, inainte de aparitia filmelor?
Spectacolele were the main attractions for people, as well as concertele, spectacol de magie, circ.
What’s the 1st fucntion of cinema and how did it become to be art?
Prima functie al cinemauiui a fost si este divertismentul, we have cinema now as art because before people were having fun with it.
In ce an a fost inventata fotografia
1822
What did people focus on, at the end of XIX to get to cinema
S-a ajuns la crearea camerei de filmat deoarece la sf sec XIX, people would focus a lot on the tehnical side of things: medicina, automobile, camere, telefoane ETC
Who realised that you can get movement through fast photography and how?
Edward Muybridge - un fotograf - este pus sa vada cu adevarat daca cele 4 picioare ale unui cal parasesc suprafata pamantului at some poit, este angajat sa demonstreze.
Pune o serie de aparate foto legate de sfori puse pe pamant cu senzor, ca atunci cand Calul trece peste fiecare, le activeaza si aparatele fac poze continue.
How was it called and what was used to see that horse running in full motion at first?
It’s called Zoopraxiscope and this is a toy cilondric that projects a photo and there would be a horse jumping with a lot of fotograme, and it’d rotate and it’d be movement on loop.
It projected images from rotating glass disks. The images were initially painted onto the glass, as silhouettes.
Who invents the Chronophotographic gun
Chronophotographic gun ( Pistol cronofotografic ) is invented by Etienne-Jules Marey, he invents it pentru studiile sale de miscari ale pasarlor.
There needs a tehnical device to share all the photograms..
ce elemente contine
There is the projector for photograms, where it makes weverything bigger through 3 elements:
lentle
lumina
fotograme
The magic lantern?
There would be multiple images projected on glass for a public -> multiple artists would use their own drawings to show the public with that.
Who were right before the L’Umiere brothers?
si ce aparate au creat
Thomas A. Edison and William Dickson create 2 different aparate care se ocupa de FACEREA si DESFACEREA miscarii:
Kinetograful (Kinetograph) = aparatul care surprinde miscarea in motion
Kinetoscopul (Kinetoscope) = asigura protectia imaginilor
Cate persoane se puteau uita prin kinetoscop?
Doar o persoana se poate uita printr-o gaura, ssi ceilalti oameni trebuiau sa vina pe rand.
Thomas Edison ce a inventat later on?
legat de sunet - si in ce an
Fonografu, in 1877, un dispozitiv vechi prin care, prin rotireaunor cilindri, putea sa asculte ce spuneau ceilalti.
Fratii L’Umiere, what do they invent?
In 1895, they make the difference in cinematograph, they start to show the movement to the mass of people due to the increase of the money gain.
->They invented a camera that could record, develop and project film, diferit de cele 2 aparate ale lui Edison.
Which brother is which and what did they do?
Luis Lumiere would do the movies.
August Lumiere would publish them, el era antreprenorul intregii familii.
How long were their movies?
In jur de 1 minut/2 minute, a fist discutat cum cineastii din diferite generatii use their regizoral power based on the time in care pelicula se consuma.
What would actors avoid and why?
at the start of secolul XX
they would avoid cinematography because they would feel like they could lose themselves through their roles.
Ricciotto Canudo what did he say?
in what years was it made?
He said that cinema is the 7th and combines each art in cinema - this theory is amde between 1910-1911
What was cinema considered in the past for ?
Cinema was only considered for its money gan. Make cinema, movies, get money, now make another movie.
What was lacking in the cinema la sf secolului XIX - inceputul secolului XX?
Camera - nu avea mobilitate, mereu un cadru static, nu aveau miscari ce camera.
Montajul nu exista, so, fratii L’umiere dadeau inapoi in fotograme la proiectionist, in proiectie.
Which was one of the most important jobs in cinematography at the time?
Proiectionistul, el ajuta ritmul SAU NU al montajului.
When was Europe the base of cinematography?
Before WorldWar 1
Cine urmeaza dupa Fratii L’Umiere?
caracteristicile noi al acestui regizor
Georfes Melies creeaza filmul “Travel to the Moon”:
- filmele sunt mult mai lungi (11/12 minute)
- povesti care se desfasoara pe mai multe spatii
- decor din carton pictat, scenografie imaginiativa, un joc frumos
- povesti stiintifico - fantastice
- folosirea stopcadru (used in a magic trick of a woman dissapearing after a blanket and becomes a skeleotn when the blaket is revealed)
- Bluebeard (1901) made by him is an amazing example of his work.
- camera este fixa
- we’re doing what he used to do, record in a studio
Who’s the first woman director ever?
Alice Guy-Blache - first woman diferctor that was in the time fo the white men directors
She makes a movie “The consequences of feminism” - 1906, it’s a comedy in which women take men’s places and the reverse.
So, women go to bars and drink, make fun of men and men take care of the children.
-She has the power to comment about the present, whereas Georges was doing just fiction.
