The Development of Cinema Flashcards

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Michael Angelo

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Tries to create movement. He was the only person to create movement

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Aristotle

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  • He recorded things
  • was a scientist
  • theorized about the concept of the “dark chamber”
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Alhazen

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Invented the first pinhole camera called “camera obscura”
-Worlds first scientist

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4
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Camera Obscura

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Latin for “Dark Chamber”

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5
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Leonardo Da Vinci

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May have had a camera obscura to show movement in his paintings

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6
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Optical Instruments

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Most were 1st marketed as toys for children

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7
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Caravaggio

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-May have had a camera obscura for making his realistic photos
- Created side lighting
- was a very bad child
- He cut a whole in his house to create side lighting
- first person to paint fruit

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Rembrandt

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-Used side lighting to emphasize emotion and structure
- Painted the most self portraits
- Heard about caravaggio

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9
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Richard Avadon

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Used side lighting for photos

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10
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Vermeer

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  • Used camera obscura
  • May have had caterax
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11
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Magic Lantern

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-Early projector
-Movable glass
-Hand painted strips
-Kerosene flames
-Projects image on wall
-Double/triple strips
-Converted from fire to electricity

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12
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“Steropticon”

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First 3D ; Double photos

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13
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Movie Parlors

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Where people would watch the projections

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14
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Magic Lanterns

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Gave the ability to allow people to see other people and places that were far away; people didn’t have to travel to see something.

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15
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Lightstore

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The only place that has all solar

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16
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Flip cards

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-Animation on flip cars were very popular
-Made scientist have to understand the human eye

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17
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Dr. Peter Mark Roget

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-Thaumatrope - “persistence of vision”
-12 pictures per second will trick the eye

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18
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Zootrope (zoetrope)

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-Made by Horner
-See moving images

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19
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William Henry Fox Talbot

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-Still photography
-Permanent negative - got something and could keep chemical plate
-Used “nitrates” which is used in gunpowder
- sit still 2 minutes - creates an image
Negative - Positive

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20
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Photography

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-Hershel
-First used in lecture at London Royal Society

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21
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Luis Daguerre

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-Invented Daguerreotype - Camera Obscura
-Uses mercury

22
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Matthew Brady

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-U.S Civil war photographer
-Wet plates
-War dead, rocks

23
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Jansen

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-Astronomer invented “photographic gun”
-Took single “shots” of birds
-shooting birds

24
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Edweard Muybridge

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-Photographed a moving horse
-Able to capture san Francisco for the first time

25
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Jules Marey

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-Flexible films
-Chronophotography
-first to photograph sports
-Cinametic graph

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Gov. Leland Stamford of California

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Bet $25,000 that a galloping horse has all four feet off the ground
- Won because horses do have all four feet of the ground when they run

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Muybridge horse

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-Set 12,16,24 still cameras at 20ft. intervals
-tied individual trip wires to each
- was slammed by press because he had to draw the horse first

28
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Zoopraxiscope

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-2 cameras (2 points of views)
-Side and back view

29
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Marey + Muybridge

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Sports photography

30
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Chronophotography

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a set of photographs of a moving object, taken for the purpose of recording and exhibiting successive phases of motion

31
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Who was trying to create moving pictures

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-French
-Danes
-Germans
-Italians
-India
-Chinese
-Japanese
-Americans

32
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Thomas (Tommy) Edison

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-Created the first movie
-Accidentally creates the first “camera”
-had hearing problems
-picked the best sound by rhythm and would bite the table do feel the vibration
-Affected sound for a long time because of his hearing problems

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William Kennedy Laurie Dickson

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-Edison’s assistant
-Invented Kinetoscope
- Kinetophone = sound
- Kinetograph = camera

34
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Fred Ott’s Sneeze

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-First Film
-Recorded by William Dickson

35
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The Black Maria

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-First Movie Studio
-Retractable Roof
-Covered in tar paper

36
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Andrew Holland

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-First “movie parlors”
-Poor working immigrants in slums watched short movies after they got off to work
-3 minute films
-only 1 person can view it
-stage actors called it trash

37
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Thomas Edison frames

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-Tried 50 frames per second
-sounded better at 24 frames a second
-just recently switched to more frames after digital films

38
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John Hyatt

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-Celluloid - a flexible plastic sheet used to capture images
-First firm stock

39
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Eastman Kodak

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mass produced celluloid

40
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Shooting

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Exposes film to light in camera

41
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Processor

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The negative chemical developed

42
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Projector

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Light behind the film onto the white screen

43
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Frames

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like picture frames

44
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Where was the first film camera and projector invented?

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Paris, Europe

45
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Lumiere Brothers

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-First camera used as a projector
-Cinematographe
-Films shown to poor in NYC
-Films shown to rich in paris
-discovered reversed action
-shot first comedy film

46
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Actualities

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Documentaries

47
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The Grand Café

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-Hottest night club in Paris
-Rich people high class
-Commercial

48
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Who did Lumiere Brothers hire?

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-Hired college students to shoot around the world
-they went to Europe, China, Russia, and India

49
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Pathe-Friere Co.

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-Pack to sell films internationally
-Shown in U.S Broadway theaters at Broadway theater prices
-First film shown was people coming out of factories

50
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George Melies

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-France theater director films
-Has a theater company
-Invents special effects
-Discovered he could turn film off and on
-Creates science fiction

51
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A trip to the Moon

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-made by George Melies
-Bathing beauties
-mocks scientists
-creates dissolve from one frame to the next
-rocket slams into the eye of the moon
-aliens