History of the Moving Image

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• History of the Moving Image

• Introduction
• The origins of photography
• The first moving images
• Film as entertainment and news
• The continuity editing system
• The influence of world cinema
• Independent film making today

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The Origins of Photography

• The magic lantern
• Camera obscura small and room size
• The birth of the photographic process 1829
• Stereoscopic photography

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The First Moving Images

• Eadwaerd Muybridges galloping horse - 1879
• Thomas Edisons Kinetoscope -
• The Lumier brothers cinematograph - 1895
• The Vistascope and projectoscope

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Film as Entertainment and News

• Film as a novelty and as a spectacle
• Film as drama The Great Train Robbery
• Film in war propaganda 16mm, 8mm 9.5mm
• The advent of Television Philo T Fansworth 1939
  

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The Continuity Editing System

• D. W Griffith and the silent era
• Russian Montage Sergei Eisenstein
• The studio system

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World Cinema

• Hollywoods influence
• German expressionism
• Italian neo-realism
• Hong Kong cinema
• Film in Africa
• ENG, DV, HDV, HD