The History of Movie PhotographyStory of the race to create a machine which would capture and display the very movement of life. Presents a vivid rendering of the creation and technical development of one of the modern world's most common forms of entertainment. |
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... persistence of vision - the ability of the eye to retain a momentary impression of a stimulus after the source has disappeared or moved on was observed in ancient times . A firebrand whirled in the dark seems to leave a continuous trace ...
... persistence of vision - the ability of the eye to retain a momentary impression of a stimulus after the source has disappeared or moved on was observed in ancient times . A firebrand whirled in the dark seems to leave a continuous trace ...
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... persistence of vision , and also observed that if the wheel was viewed intermittently , it would appear to be stationary . Roget , who is perhaps best known for his compilation of the Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases , written ...
... persistence of vision , and also observed that if the wheel was viewed intermittently , it would appear to be stationary . Roget , who is perhaps best known for his compilation of the Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases , written ...
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... persistence of vision effect . In another version of the device , Paris proposed the use of elastic threads so arranged that the card was also twisted while it was rotating . This could give illusions of movement a man drinking , or ...
... persistence of vision effect . In another version of the device , Paris proposed the use of elastic threads so arranged that the card was also twisted while it was rotating . This could give illusions of movement a man drinking , or ...
Contents
NAL JOLSON | 6 |
Illusions of reality | 26 |
Photographing movement | 38 |
Copyright | |
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16mm film 35mm film amateur America apparatus audience bipack Birt Acres camera and projector celluloid cinecamera Cinecolor cinema CinemaScope cinematography Cinéorama Cinerama colour films cylinder demonstrated designed developed device Dickson disc dissolving view Dufaycolor early Eastman Edison effect emulsion exposed exposures feet filters fitted frame Friese Greene Gaumont gelatin glass gramophone improved intermittently introduced invented Kinemacolor Kinetoscope Kodak lamp lens lenses light London Lumière machine magazine magic lantern Marey mechanism method metres mirror motion picture movement movie moving picture Muybridge negative film operated optical painted Paris patent Pathé perforated persistence of vision Phenakistoscope photographic picture frequency plate Praxinoscope principle printed Prizma produced projection red and green rotating scene sensitive sequence shot shown shutter side slides slot sound film sound recording sound track stereophonic sound stereoscopic strip studio successful synchronised Technicolor TECHNISCOPE Theatre Théâtre Optique Todd-AO transparent two-colour wheel wide film wide screen