Celluloid

The field of animation has been one of the most interesting and creative forms of film and its history goes almost all the way back to the beginning of movies. The first example is a short two-minute film called The Enchanted Drawing from the year 1900. It was not entirely animated as it included live action footage, but it was the first movie with animated sequences as far as I am aware. It consists of a man (in live-action) drawing a picture of a man's face on an easel, as well as other…

advancement. This is when a glass plate is coated with a gelatin emulsion of silver bromide where a picture could be imprinted on. It was able to be mass produced adding to its benefits. This idea came from R.L. Maddox. This idea was morphed into the celluloid film base idea. This is a transparent substrate that behaves like a support medium for the photosensitive emulsion projected onto it. This was the first time a roll of film could be easily used in a…

technique used when objects would be moved around, in between their images while being recorded. That way, when shown at a normal rate, the objects would look like they were moving. Cel technique is done when you animate moving objects onto transparent celluloid sheets. After that, the animators would take pictures of the sheets that had the same background picture to have a sequence of images, also making an illusion of animation. There are many animation studios out there today, and the oldest…

friend of Ben’s father pulls ben apart and says he want to tell him just one word. “Plastics.” “’The Graduate’ didn't invent the use of the word plastic to signify everything phony and superficial in American life. It merely sealed it in, well, celluloid” (Holden, 1997) The word plastics fit so well with this movie and the way that the relationships were over the course of Ben’s summer at home. The first time we see this is when the man pulls Ben aside. It is an awkward encounter that Ben didn’t…

There are also many different types of plastics that are used such as foam, celluloid, and vinyl chloride. Some plastics are strictly reserved for military use but the most common plastic used in commercial use today is polyethylene terephthalate, most commonly known as PET. Beverage container industries first introduced PET into…

Throughout time, people have always marveled at the ability to be able to preserve a moment for all eternity whether it be scrawling it down, painting a portrait or taking photographs. Photography is a very integral part of our lives today with how it's evolving and how everyone and their mother are recording virtually anything of interest. Newer tools like iphone cameras and phone applications that allow you to edit and mess around with photos are one of the things that never would have been…

Cecil Hepworth 's 1900, How It Feels to Be Run Over, is the epitome of the first movement in film history, known as the ‘Cinema of Attractions’. The forty-second long silent film is one of many early films that emerged during the first decade following cinema 's birth, which came after the Industrial Revolution during the 18th and 19th centuries. This particular film, which depicts exactly what it 's title insinuates, is a single shot pointing down a paved road in which a coach drives past,…

Film noir, in the most traditional sense, is a genre of cinematographic film notable by a tone of pessimism and fatalism. From the forties and fifties - when the genre was first identified with American detective or thriller films - film noir has since experienced a resurgence at the dawn of the new century, often dubbed as “neo-noir” films. One film in the neo-noir category is Pulp Fiction, directed by Quentin Tarantino. The title, “pulp fiction,” owes itself to the “cheap fiction magazines…

Name Tutor Course Date Inventing Solutions Without most of today 's inventions, life would be unimaginably hard. Imagine a situation where people would walk for days in search of basic and social amenities. Imagine the world without electricity. It is in this regard that man invented solutions to most of these vexing problems affecting his day-to-day operations. Therefore, at this stage, we can say that the process of creating or designing a solution to a problem is called inventing a solution.…

every single person he met who returned from America had a huge change in their lives. For example, their looks, “Clean shaven Amerikanec, blue serge suit, buttoned shoes very large in the toes and with India rubber heels, a lack derby, a shiny celluloid collar, and a loud mecktie made even louder by a dazzling horseshoe pin, which, rumor had it, was made of gold, while his suitcase of imitation leather, tried with straps, bulged with gifts from America for his relative and friend in the…