film history presented by helen stephenson. thomas edison the beginnings of film... mechanical...
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Thomas Edison
The beginnings of film . . . • Mechanical• Similar to still photography• Patents on film-making
mechanisms• Started as business
First films – 1800s• Thomas Edison’s Monkeyshines 1 and 2,
1890?• Kinetograph – first motor-driven cameraWilliam Kennedy Laurie Dickson, Assistant• Kinescope - projector
Kinescope
Parlor Kinescope
First films – 1800s• Louis Le Prince• Single-lense camera patented
in 1886• Roundhay Garden Scene, 1888
Four years before Edison.
First public showing • Paris, Dec 28, 1895• Auguste & Louis Lumiere • “Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory”• 46 seconds
First narrative film• Edison’s studio• The Great Train Robbery, 1903
• Georges Melees• Documentaries and
narrative shorts, 1896
Seven years before Edison.
Meanwhile in France