Crash Course 3-4 Notes

Cinematographe

(Writing with Movement) a compact portable box light enough for one person to carry operated by a hand crank no need for electricity used the same 35 mm film as Edison's camera but could also develop it . it could also be reconfigured to project the film

Auguste and Louis Lumiere Birth

1860's in eastern France

What did the Lumiere brothers create?

Cinematographe which was a lightweight all in one camera that filmed developed and projected movies

Lumiere Bros First Screening

Dec 28, 1895

Types of In Camera Effects

Double exposure- exposing the film twice resulting in two images overlaid Split Screen cover half of the lens, record, switch halves and record again Matting- similar to Split screen using shapes instead of simply covering half of the lens

Types of Transitions

Fades Wipes Dissolves Cuts

What did the Lumiere family own?

The Lumiere family owned a factory that produced photographic plates. By the time the brothers began to experiment with film they had experience in business engineering manufacturing and photography

Editing

also known as cutting is the assembling of shots to achieve coherence in the narrative

George Melies

born in paris in 1861 and was a famous stage magician.

Melies

colored his film by painting each frame by hand

Alice Guy-Blache

first female filmmaker

In Camera Effects

happens in the camera rather than after developing the film.

Woodville Latham

held the official first public screening of a boxing match in NY on May 1895

"The Train Arrives at La Ciotat Station"

is an example of Actualite. Films focused on slices of everyday life

Oskar Messter

perfected the Maltese Cross a stop and go mechanism also called the Geneva Drive named after the city in Switzerland where it was used in watches

The Latham Loop

prevented films from tearing inside the projector allowing for films to become much longer

Proscenium

staging like a play