TCF 112 1st Edition Lecture 1 Outline of Current Lecture I Birth of Cinema II Cinemas Pre History a Edison i Edison Dickson Advances ii Edison Dickson Drawbacks b Lumiere Bro i Advances ii Edison Lumiere c Melies i Realist vs Formalist III Evolution of Visual Storytelling and Narrative Strategies a Porter b GTR Current Lecture Birth of Cinema The biggest early film creators were Thomas Edison Georges Melies and the Lumiere Bro Pre History of Cinema Movies were built on previous inventions and discoveries Edison Dealt in science industry business and spectacle Focused on innovation and hardware WKL Dickson created the kinetoscope and the kinetograph Kinetoscope for viewing films Kinetograph for image capturing Black Maria first American film studio Edison Dickson Advances o Perforated film locks film in place These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute o Intermittent motion of film allowed discrete photographs to be taken at regular intervals o Shutter adjusts light o Standardized film gauge 35mm 1 5 allowed for mass production Edison Dickson Drawbacks o Kinetograph is not portable o Studio bound film making o Short film lengths Lumiere Bro Invented cinematograph first film screening on December 28 1895 in Paris Advances over Kinetograph o Portable o Versatile o Standardized film speed o Changed aesthetics o Actualities mini documentaries o Dynamic perspective o Camera and subject movement o In depth composition Edison Lumiere o Static camera o One movie one shot o Theater influences Framing Proscenium area of a theatre surrounding the stage opening Melies Stop motion photography Multiple exposures Cinematic transitions SFX 21st century viral magic Cinema created its own reality One shot one scene series of scenes movie Realist vs Formalist o Realist Frame window Cinema to record reality o Formalist Frame canvas Cinema to create whatever can be imagined Evolution of Visual Storytelling and Narrative Strategies Porter Multiple shots and different angles Manipulation of cinematic time Parallel editing Continuity editing Varied shot perspective New basic film unit Examples o Life of an American Firefighter o The Great Train Robbery GTR Standardized film consumption practices Proved entrepreneurs could commodify spectacle