MTD2: Lecture I The Beginnings of Motion

Not in Jail. In the olden days shooting people was no biggie. I’m a murderer.

Without looking at this giant picture, do all four horse’s legs ever get off the ground at once? (How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?) We may never know.

Muybridge – Nude Descending a Stair Case.

Matrix vs. Muybridge

Etienne-Jules Marey (Chronophotography)- Birds in Motion (1882) For reference, this may be where we actually get the metaphor of doing a “camera shoot”

Connections to Marey and Muybridge Marcel Duchamp: Nude Descending a Staircase Marey to Mocap

A picture is worth a thousand dollars, or at least this one should be. This horse photo is about to “blowup!” OR Zoopraxiscope vs Zoetrope Death match 1879

Zoopraxiscope Zoetrope Phenakistoscope

Pre-historic not quite just a pre-history. Magic Lanterns - performance meets projection Trading card by Daniel Barrow, contemporary slide projector artist.

I spin things all the time and nothing happens. How the heck do Zoetropes work? Watch Human Zoetrope

Thank you persistence of vision

Thomas Edison’s Kinetoscope The viewer would look through a lens on top of the closed kinetoscope to watch a film. Like one of a guy sneezing. People loved it!

Becomes->? Mutoscopes and the Penny Arcade

Lumiere Camera… Everyone gets into the act Almost done. I am tired of making slides == Most boring slide EVER!

Marcel Duchamp paints this in1912 and presents it in the 1913 Armory Show in New York. Guess what he calls it?

So what does early cinema look like? How does it evolve? Let’s take a look. The films of Edison and the Black Maria Studio A Trip to the Moon by Georges Méliés The Great Train Robbery by Edwin S. Porter Lumiere & Company films by contemporary filmmakers