The Basics: What is a Movie?

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The Basics: What is a Movie?

Still pictures (FRAME) Seen in rapid succession Traditional Frame Rate Movies: 24 fps (frames per second) Video: 30 fps

SHOT: a series of frames that runs for an uninterrupted period of time

EDWEARD MUYBRIDGE English Photographer Photographic Studies Led to the Development of Motion Pictures

PERSISTENCE OF VISION (MOTION)

THOMAS EDISON Patented the first motion picture camera in the U.S.

THOMAS EDISON Black Maria First Motion Picture Studio “The Kiss” “The Sneeze”

KINETOSCOPE An early machine designed for individuals to watch motion pictures.

LUMIERE BROTHERS Auguste and Louis Mobile Camera Public Screenings “Arrival of a Train” “Workers Leaving a Factory”

GEORGE MELIES Storytelling Special Effects “A Trip to the Moon”

EDWIN PORTER Cross Cutting “Life of an American Fireman” “The Great Train Robbery”

D.W. GRIFFITH Sometimes considered the Father Editing “Intolerance” “Way Down East”

SILENT ERA (1894–1929) Melodrama Slapstick

STUDIO ERA (1928-1949) First “Talkie:” The Jazz Singer (1927) Five Major Studios: RKO, Fox, Paramount, MGM, Warner Brothers US vs Paramount Pictures (1948) Ended Block Booking. Studios no longer can own theaters.

Hollywood Transitions (1948-1963) Major studios break contracts with stars/technicians Competition from television New technologies 3D Wide screen Color

Hollywood Rennaissance (1964-1976) Anti-hero Auteur directors: a filmmaker whose personal influence and artistic control over a movie are so great that the filmmaker is regarded as the author of the movie. More realistic depiction of modern life

Digital Cinema (1993-Now) Digital Filmmaking Non-linear editing CGI