David Cook explores the development of how a film should tell a story and Méliès introduced different types of developments by inventing various special effects techniques. David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson argue that still photos were put together to make film during 1890s, photography were cheap as well as the most efficient way of generating thousands of images. This section focuses on the technological history as inventors created different types of camera.
One of the tricks Méliès learnt accidentally while filming a scene in 1896 is known as ‘stop-trick’. He realised that the film does not have to be realistic and that could manipulate the audience. The trick is widely used nowadays especially when a character wants to do a magic. …show more content…
465) and in 1889, George Eastman invented a crude flexible flimsies where are long strips of frame made of celluloid. In order for film-makers to make successful motion picture films in the early 1890s, they needed to have “flexible, transparent film base, a fast exposure time, mechanism to pull the film through the camera, an intermittent device to stop the film and a shutter to block off light” (p. 466). Thomas Edison invented the Kinetoscope in 1893, developed by his assistant Dickson. Kinetoscope is a device that displays films in which viewers had to look through a peephole individually. The Lumiére brothers improved and developed the device with the 35mm film by making their own camera and presenting the films as a projector. This was just the beginning of the cinema was about to be invented when Edison no longer wanted to his Kinetoscope and made films for theatres with his own production company. The early cinema were extremely simple in form and style. They usually consisted of a single shot framing an action, usually at long-shot distance. During that time, the films were taken in the theatres, however, the Lumiéres started to film everyday activities outside in the public places such as parks, gardens and in the streets. David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson mentioned about Méliès in their chapter of early cinema stating that the early films
One of the tricks Méliès learnt accidentally while filming a scene in 1896 is known as ‘stop-trick’. He realised that the film does not have to be realistic and that could manipulate the audience. The trick is widely used nowadays especially when a character wants to do a magic. …show more content…
465) and in 1889, George Eastman invented a crude flexible flimsies where are long strips of frame made of celluloid. In order for film-makers to make successful motion picture films in the early 1890s, they needed to have “flexible, transparent film base, a fast exposure time, mechanism to pull the film through the camera, an intermittent device to stop the film and a shutter to block off light” (p. 466). Thomas Edison invented the Kinetoscope in 1893, developed by his assistant Dickson. Kinetoscope is a device that displays films in which viewers had to look through a peephole individually. The Lumiére brothers improved and developed the device with the 35mm film by making their own camera and presenting the films as a projector. This was just the beginning of the cinema was about to be invented when Edison no longer wanted to his Kinetoscope and made films for theatres with his own production company. The early cinema were extremely simple in form and style. They usually consisted of a single shot framing an action, usually at long-shot distance. During that time, the films were taken in the theatres, however, the Lumiéres started to film everyday activities outside in the public places such as parks, gardens and in the streets. David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson mentioned about Méliès in their chapter of early cinema stating that the early films