Exam 2

Question 1

Camera Obscura

Answer 1

Dark box with pinhole. Light displays on opposite wall of he box mirrored and upside down. First Camera

Question 2

First Permanent Photograph

Answer 2

1826 by Joseph Niepce on a pewter plate.

Question 3

Camera Lucida

Answer 3

Optical device used by artist as drawing aid. Doesn’t project image. Creates optical superimposition on surface of artist drawing. Patented 1806 by William Wollaston

Question 4

Joseph Niépce

Answer 4

Early 1800’s began experimenting with fixing images from the camera Obscura, 1818 created image that was stable for 3 months, inventor of photography,

Question 5

Nimrud Lens

Answer 5

Said to have been able to focus sunlight, slightly oval, roughly ground, 12 by 11 cm, 3x magnifying glass, Assyrian palace of nimrud, Iraq

Question 6

Thaumatropes

Answer 6

A disk with a picture on each side that is twirled quickly to make the pictures blend together

Question 7

Phenakistoscope

Answer 7

Two disks, one with small equidistant radial windows, through which the viewer would look. Another contained a sequence of images drawn around the disk in concentric circles. When viewed in a mirror through the first disks slots the pictures on the second disk appeared to move.

Question 8

Zoetrope; wheel of life

Answer 8

Place a strip of drawings inside the drum and spin it when you look through the slots the images appear to be moving

Question 9

Louis- Jacques Daguerre

Answer 9

1787-1851 most of his work in 1830’s. Interested in dynamics of light and the way it creates movement. 1839 shows French Académie des Sciences the process called Dauguerreotype. Worked with Joseph Niepce

Question 10

Daguerreotype

Answer 10

First publicly available photographic process, for 20 years was the most commonly used. A sheet of silver plated copper would be polished to a mirror finish and be treated with fumes to make it light sensitive. It would be exposed in a camera for as long as necessary. Then it would be made visible by fuming it with mercury vapor. First person, Shells, Robert Cornelius, Moon, Abraham Lincoln, Arrest.

Question 11

Johann Schulze

Answer 11

Proved that darkening of silver salts is caused by light not heat

Question 12

Eadweard Muybridge

Answer 12

The horse in motion 1878. Showed that all four hooves come off the ground at once.

Question 13

Persistence of vision

Answer 13

The retention of a visual image for a short period of time after the removal of the stimulus that produced it

Question 14

Calotype

Answer 14

Early photographic process that can be copied

Question 15

MonkeyShines No.1

Answer 15

First films shot in the United States 1889

Question 16

Roundhay Garden Scene

Answer 16

1888 shirt silent film oldest surviving film in existence

Question 17

Arrival of a train a la ciotat Station

Answer 17

One of the first films shown to the public 1896

Question 18

The kiss

Answer 18

Sailor and nurse in Times Square on V-J day in august 1945 happiness end of war most famous photograph of 20th century

Question 19

Exploitation Film

Answer 19

A film intended to attract an audience by means of its sensationalist or controversial content

Question 20

Grindhouse Cinema

Answer 20

Movie theaters specially built to showcase exploitation films mostly around in 1970s

Question 21

Psychotropic Film

Answer 21

Low budget genre pictures that are generally disdained or ignored entirely by the critical establishment