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Jan 16, 2012
WELCOME INTO THE WORLD OF FILM
There are multiple debates concerning the origins of film. Photographers in the nineteenth century were anxious to find a way to capture movement, almost from the moment they discovered the art of photography. It took less than half a century, and by the 1870s Edward Muybridge has already made significant advances, managing with the use of the zoopraxiscope to exhibit successfully a series of moving images. Muybridge was a scientist, so for him the experiments did not serve an artistic purpose. That is why, despite their historical importance in the development of technology, his pieces are rather foreign to film as we understand it. |
Culture Wars Essential Films - Chapter I
G. SACCO ALBANESEActor | A silent shadow flicking to a beam of light – this is perhaps the best way to describe the person that was Giuseppe Sacco Albanese, the man that could be the first actor in American cinema. William K.L. Dickson’s and William Heise’s first successful experiment in shooting a moving image, Monkeyshines, No. 1 (1890), shows a ghostly figure moving in the dark. |
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PRODUCTION COMPANY CANON: UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND |
