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Origins Of Film

Origins Of Film. Conall Hardesty Tommy Looney Hopefully Sean Grace Patrick Butler. Brief History and Technology of Early Film. Magic Lantern. The Magic Lantern is an early type of image projector. Uses photographs or images painted on glass .

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Origins Of Film

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  1. Origins Of Film ConallHardesty Tommy Looney Hopefully Sean Grace Patrick Butler

  2. Brief History and Technology of Early Film

  3. Magic Lantern • The Magic Lantern is an early type of image projector. • Uses photographs or images painted on glass . • Was able to show slight motion during the slide show. • Cameras could be built on top of each other to show motion. • Leavers were also made on the machine to allow the user to give motion to the picture showing.

  4. How it Worked? Lamp The lamp is the source of illumination. The reflector reflects light from the lamp onto a condensing lens which focuses light on the slide being shown. Slide Lens Tube The lens tube magnifies the illuminated slide onto a darkened wall. Reflector

  5. Praxinoscope • The Praxinoscope was an animation device. • It used strips of pictures placed around the inner surface of a spinning cylinder. • An inner cylinder of mirrors was placed inside this producing the illusion of motion from the strips pictures.

  6. How is Worked? • Example of the Praxinoscope • www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOItdZOGnx8?subject=Praxinoscope

  7. Kinetoscope • Designed by Thomas Edison in 1888. • It was designed for films to be viewed individually through the window of a cabinet . • It created the illusion of movement by rapidly passing a film between a lens and an electric light blub. • The viewer looked through a peep hole where a spinning wheel would show 46 frames per second.

  8. Diagram of Kinetoscope Peephole Lens Light bulb Film

  9. Brief History and Technology of Film part 2

  10. Louis Lumiere’s Camera • The cinematographe was developed by the lumiere brothers in the 1890’s. • It is believed that the Lumiere’s first conceptualised the idea. • The cinematographe was the foundation for the motion picture camera. • It could record, develop and project motion pictures.

  11. Lumiere’s Camera

  12. Edwin S Porter • Edwin S Porter was a groundbreaking film director/producer. • Porter was film editing pioneer utilising “cross-cutting” and close ups. • His film “The Great Train Robbery” is considered to be origin of the western motion picture. • It featured composite editing, cross cutting, double exposure, camera movement and on location shooting.

  13. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwqC3WJYylA

  14. The Moviola • The Moviola allows a film editor to view film while editing. • It was invented by Ivan Serrurierin 1924 and was used as the first machine for motion picture editing. • It allows film editors to view individual shots. • Moviola’s were standard for western film editing up to the 1970’s. • Horizontal flatbed systems became more common often the 1970’s.

  15. Vertical Systems Flat bed System

  16. Questions??

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