The Development of Cinema Flashcards
Michael Angelo
Tries to create movement. He was the only person to create movement
Aristotle
- He recorded things
- was a scientist
- theorized about the concept of the “dark chamber”
Alhazen
Invented the first pinhole camera called “camera obscura”
-Worlds first scientist
Camera Obscura
Latin for “Dark Chamber”
Leonardo Da Vinci
May have had a camera obscura to show movement in his paintings
Optical Instruments
Most were 1st marketed as toys for children
Caravaggio
-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
Rembrandt
-Used side lighting to emphasize emotion and structure
- Painted the most self portraits
- Heard about caravaggio
Richard Avadon
Used side lighting for photos
Vermeer
- Used camera obscura
- May have had caterax
Magic Lantern
-Early projector
-Movable glass
-Hand painted strips
-Kerosene flames
-Projects image on wall
-Double/triple strips
-Converted from fire to electricity
“Steropticon”
First 3D ; Double photos
Movie Parlors
Where people would watch the projections
Magic Lanterns
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.
Lightstore
The only place that has all solar
Flip cards
-Animation on flip cars were very popular
-Made scientist have to understand the human eye
Dr. Peter Mark Roget
-Thaumatrope - “persistence of vision”
-12 pictures per second will trick the eye
Zootrope (zoetrope)
-Made by Horner
-See moving images
William Henry Fox Talbot
-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
Photography
-Hershel
-First used in lecture at London Royal Society