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Sunday 6 November 2011

Single camera Technique-Origins

When was the first film shown to an audience?


The first film was shown on 28th December 1895.


In the country was the first film shown to an audience?


The country that first showed films to an audience was France


What was it called?


'L' arrivee d'un train a la cidat


how long was it?


The film was a minute long.


Who was the editor?


Their was no editor in the film.


What was the audience reaction? Why do you think they reacted like this?


The audience ran out of the cinema frighten and scared due to it being their first time seeing a moving image.


Who is known as the 'father of cinema'? Why?


A Frenchman by the name  Louis Lumiere is credited with inventing the first movie camera.They lined up a series of photo cameras to take pictures while a horse was running. when they got the photos they noticed that if they flipped through the pictures quickly in sequence, they saw that they had a "motion picture" of the horse.
However, he is not the first no one know who actually invented the first movie camera.Louis Jean Lumiere is considered the father of cinema due to bring the first film cinema called 'L' arrivee d' un train a la cidat which scared the hell out of the audience as their believed the train was going to come through the cinema screen and plow them.


Who was the first film star ?

The first film star was Florence Lawrence (Biograph girl) who was nineteenth century actor who made the first of her 38 films  for Vitagraph.Lawrence made 65 films in total, she appeared in 300 films.


Describe the film and why it was successful.






What is Nickelodeon?


A movie theater with an admission fee of one nickel.


What else did he do?


Who saw no future for cinema? (and retired in 1990 to make still photographic equipment)
Auguste Lumiere


What film did George Meliees known for?


La Voyage dans la lune.


What developments was Melies known for?


 Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès, was a French Filmaker famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest cinema. He was very innovative in the use of special effects. He accidentally discovered the stop trick, or substitution, in 1896, and was one of the first filmakers to use multiple exposures , time lapse photography, dissolves, and hand-painted color in his films. Because of his ability to seemingly manipulate and transform reality through cinematography, Méliès is sometimes referred to as the First "Cinemagician."


Which American rock band used Melies as their inspiration? How?


The smashing pumpkins in their song "tonight tonight". drawing heavy influence from Georges Melies's A Trip to the Moon,   the video was filmed in the style of a turn-of-the-century silent film using theater-style backdrops and primitive special effects.


Who directed 'The Great Train Robbery in 1903?


The director of the 'The Great Train Robbery was Edwin Stanton Porter.

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