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C H A P T E R  7/6

C I N E M A

 

C I N E M A

 

Charlie Chaplin

 
 

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PRESENTATION

 

 

Edward J. Muybridge
(April 9, 1830 – May 8, 1904) was an English photographer, known primarily for his early use of multiple cameras to capture motion, and his zoopraxiscope, a device for projecting motion pictures that pre-dated the celluloid film strip.

    

 


A popularly-debated question of the day was whether all four of a horse's hooves left the ground at the same time during a gallop. Leland Stanford (the Governor of California) sided with this assertion - called unsupported transit. He hired Muybridge to settle the question.

In 1878 Muybridge photographed a horse in fast motion using a series of twenty-four cameras. Trip-wires attached to each camera's shutter were triggered by the horse's hooves.

 


 

Muybridge started by photographing landscaped of Yosemite and San Francisco.

 

 

 

At the Chicago 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, Muybridge gave a series of lectures on the Science of Animal Locomotion in the Zoopraxographical Hall - built specially for that purpose. He used his zoopraxiscope to show his moving pictures to a paying public. This  was the very first commercial movie theater.

 

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OTHER WORKS

 

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William Kennedy Dickson


 

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration." - Thomas Alva Edison, Harper's Monthly (September 1932)

 

 

Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) invented the motion picture camera or "Kinetograph". He did the electromechanical design, while his employee W.K.L. Dickson, a photographer, worked on the photographic and optical development. In 1891, Thomas Edison built a Kinetoscope - or peep-hole viewer. This device was installed in penny arcades where people could watch short films. The kinetograph and kinetoscope were both first publicly exhibited May 20, 1891.

 

He was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production and large teamwork to the process of invention, and created the first industrial research laboratory. Edison held 1,093 U.S. patents. His inventions include: the electric light bulb, His first power plant was on Manhattan Island, New York.

 


 

Persistence of Vision

The movie camera flashes a series of still frame images onto the movie screen at a rate of 24 frames per second. The retina retains the image for 1/10th of a second after it disappears – creating the illusion of movement. The book attributed this theory to Ptolemy; it’s called persistence of vision.

 


 

Battleship Potemkin - Sergei Eisenstein

 

 

FORM CUT AND MONTAGE CUT

 

   

 

 

Subjective Viewpoint (p 159) Shot from the perspective of the character.

Objective Viewpoint Shot from the viewpoint of an omnipresent viewer.



FOCUS:


DEPTH OF FIELD

Rack or Differential Focus: (p160)

The main object is clear, and the remaining scene blurs out.

 

 

Camera Angles in Dead Man Walking

 

 

 

CLASSIFICATIONS

 

ANIMATION

 

David Bolinsky - Medical Animator

XVIVO Scientific Animation

 

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU

 

 

 

Narrative / Fictional - follows a plot

 

Pan's Labyrinth

 

Look for these Shots:

 

1. Long Shot

2. Medium Shot

3. Depth of Field

4. Close up of painting / pan / close up of her and shoes

5. Unreal Objective- a nonexistent point of view

6. Dolly or Tracking Shot

 

 

Cinéma Vérité - French for "cinema truth"

It's a documentary style that emphasizes: natural light, hand-held cameras, realism, and as little director intervention as possible. Movies like Cloverfield have copied these techniques to give the movie a sense of realism, but are considered by many to not be of the genera.
 

CLOVERFIELD

 

Documentary

 

Taxi To The Dark Side
 

Bowling for Columbine
 

Broken Rainbow

 

On December 1974 Congress passed Public Law 93-531 "The Navajo-Hopi Land Settlement Act". It authorized the partitioning of the Joint Use Area (JUA) and established the Navajo-Hopi Indian Relocation Commission (NHIRC) which moved Navajo people from the reservation lands. The most traditionally and culturally intact Dineh (Navajo) people were forced to re-locate to cities.

This 1985 documentary traces the history of both tribes and the events that led to this devastating land grab by Peabody Coal and Bechtel Corporations, assisted by our own government (major players included Barry Goldwater, Morris Udall, John McCain, and President Ford). The goal: access to coal and uranium resources.
 

 

 

 

Avant Garde / Absolute - no plot, pure movement

 

American Beauty
 

Marco Brambilla:

 

Ghost

Civilization

Flashback

Cathedral

 

 


 

 

CINEMA APPRECIATION

 

SUGGESTED FILMS

 

My left foot- the story of Christy Brown - (verisimilitude)

 

Pleasantville

 

Memento - (editing)

 

Pollock

 

Amadeus

 

The Piano

 

The Pianist


Romeo and Juliet

 

Mankind Is No Island by Jason van Genderen


Idiot with a Tripod

 

 

 

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