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W-Seminar Englisch (Subject) / C1 + C2 (Lesson)
The origin and the development of film as a new medium
This lesson was created by moonlife.
- illussion of movement based on the "persistence of vision" (Trägheit des Auges) optical illusion
- phi phenomenon watching quick succession of single images or still pictures with small differences creates the illusion of continuous movement due to an after-image on our retina (Netzhaut) and in our brain
- frame rate 12 fps = movement (still flickering) 24 fps = motion-picture movies use this
- illusion toys zeotrope (Drehteil), flipbook, thaumatrope
- 1827 - 1930 1827: first still photograph taken by Claude Niepce; "View from a Window at Le Gras" 1839: introduction of negatives on pappter by Henry Fox Talbot 1878: Muybridge; 12 cameras, used Zeotrope to show how horse runs 1896: first film, Arrival of a Train (Lumiére brothers), Lumiere brothers the first to present moving pictures to paying audience 1902: Voyage to the Moon (Georges Méliés), hand-painting and tinting (färben) 1903: first silent movie, first narrative movie that told a story, producer: Thomas Edison, director: Edwin S. Porter, The Great Train Robbery 1927: first film with synchronized sound (by Warner Bros', director: Alan Crosland), The Jazz Singer 1930: first film that used microphones (recorded while filming), Show Girl in Hollywood
- cinema invented in the 1890s (telephone, automobile as well) by the 1890s all the technical conditions necessary for the cinema existed
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