Friday, July 19, 2019

Film Studies " Early Cinema brief by Simran S Kaler

Cinema starts with sense of getting emotion through moving pictures, as al hyatam the Egyptian scientist give us one book on "book of optics" we come to know the power of reflection. Using this power we did miracles.
Starting from tracing the reflection of light with pinhole camera, we come out with small device camera obscura. Nepcie the friench scientist capture the first exposure in a long time. Louise dougretype helped us to get this exposure in three minutes slowly slowly in seconds.
Edward Muybridge helps us to give us persistence of vision by capturing the exposure of 16 cameras by crossing a running horse in 1884-85
Thomas Edison bought cinematography camera tool from Leon bouly and develop it to create the first few motion pictures with the help of luminar brothers.
Edwin Potter gave us the first sequence of 9 minutes "The great train robbery" as a father of action or western film n 1902. George melious father of animation was an illunist who used camera to show his craft by creating films like hunting, trip to the moon etc from 1901,
DW Griffith father of film gave us dramatic cutting by giving us first feature length film The birthday of a nation in 1914.

German film was working on German expression by using hard lights, shadows and sets of asmetrical shapes example cabinet of Dr Calgary.
On the other hand father of montage Sergei eisenstine  gave us 5 types of montage pudovkin gave 5 types of editing cuts in Russia in the lue of juxtaposition of Lev kulshove A+B=X.
Hollywood age was killing all others cinema around the world. Filmaker like FW munru, Sergei eisenstine also shifted themselves to Hollywood.
Hollywood golden age rules the world by giving first sound film 1927 The jazz singer in  which only songs were having voice with sound rest of the film was silent.

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