Development In Editing
The first person that i will be talking is Thomas Edison, he ran a film laboratory where he invented the kinegraphic camera and also the kinescope. he had also developed the 35 mm film strip that had came into the industry as standard, he had also eventually developed the projector to play it.
The second set of people that i will be talking about is the Lumiere brothers, Thomas Edison was working with the Lumiere brothers and had produced short films with them that were on long, static, locked-down shot. The motion in the shot was all that was needed o amuse an audience, so all of the first films were just simply showing all of the activity such as the traffic moving on a city street.
The third person is G.A. Smith, initially there was no story and no editing to the films so each film ran as long as there was a film inside of the camera. One example of this is the film The miller and the sweep, Also in 1899 G.A. Smith made The kiss in the tunnel, this film was to have been said to mark the beginnings of narrative editing. Smith "felt that some extra spice was called for" in the the popular Phantom ride genre, he had took advantage of the brief onset of the darkness as they went into tunnel to splice cut and stick two pieces of film together.
The fourth person is George Melies, he was a magician who had seen the films mad by the Limiere brothers. He saw the possibilities of a novelty more than just motion it's self, it was rumoured that he discovered the art of stop motion purely by accident when a camera that he was using had broken for a brief second which was how he got the popularity of the vanishing woman, he never really changed what he did so people lost interest. Because of this he was forced out of the commercial industry and he died in 1913 of poverty, some of the elements of his life were depicted and was placed into the recent film Hugo.
The fifth set of people are Porter and Ediso, Edwin S Porter was working as an electrician before he had joined the film laborttory of Thomas Alva Edison in the late 1890's. He and Edison had worked together and had made longer and more interesting films, Porter had made the break through with the film the life of an american fireman in 1903. The film was among some of the first films to have a plot, action and a close up of a hand pulling a fire alarm, Porter had discovered some important aspects of motion picture language, it was that the screen image does not need to show a complete person from the head to toe. Porter's ground breaking film, The Great Train Robbery, 1903, is a great example of the resemblance of the types of films that we are able to see today.
The sixth person that I will be talking about is someone called Charles Pathe. Charles Pathe was the director of the famous film The Horse That Bolted which was made in 1907. He was one of the first people that had introduced a technique that was known as parallel editing, this was shown by cutting between the delivery man and the horse that was waiting for him.
The last person that I will be talking about is D.W. Griffiths, he was a U.S. film director and one of the very first people who had supported the idea of editing a piece of film. He had made good use of the cross cutting to show the parallel action in different locations, Griffiths was one of the first of early directors and one of his most controversial film and possibly one of his best remembered was the film, The Birth Of A Nation which was made in 1915
The second set of people that i will be talking about is the Lumiere brothers, Thomas Edison was working with the Lumiere brothers and had produced short films with them that were on long, static, locked-down shot. The motion in the shot was all that was needed o amuse an audience, so all of the first films were just simply showing all of the activity such as the traffic moving on a city street.
The third person is G.A. Smith, initially there was no story and no editing to the films so each film ran as long as there was a film inside of the camera. One example of this is the film The miller and the sweep, Also in 1899 G.A. Smith made The kiss in the tunnel, this film was to have been said to mark the beginnings of narrative editing. Smith "felt that some extra spice was called for" in the the popular Phantom ride genre, he had took advantage of the brief onset of the darkness as they went into tunnel to splice cut and stick two pieces of film together.
The fourth person is George Melies, he was a magician who had seen the films mad by the Limiere brothers. He saw the possibilities of a novelty more than just motion it's self, it was rumoured that he discovered the art of stop motion purely by accident when a camera that he was using had broken for a brief second which was how he got the popularity of the vanishing woman, he never really changed what he did so people lost interest. Because of this he was forced out of the commercial industry and he died in 1913 of poverty, some of the elements of his life were depicted and was placed into the recent film Hugo.
The fifth set of people are Porter and Ediso, Edwin S Porter was working as an electrician before he had joined the film laborttory of Thomas Alva Edison in the late 1890's. He and Edison had worked together and had made longer and more interesting films, Porter had made the break through with the film the life of an american fireman in 1903. The film was among some of the first films to have a plot, action and a close up of a hand pulling a fire alarm, Porter had discovered some important aspects of motion picture language, it was that the screen image does not need to show a complete person from the head to toe. Porter's ground breaking film, The Great Train Robbery, 1903, is a great example of the resemblance of the types of films that we are able to see today.
The sixth person that I will be talking about is someone called Charles Pathe. Charles Pathe was the director of the famous film The Horse That Bolted which was made in 1907. He was one of the first people that had introduced a technique that was known as parallel editing, this was shown by cutting between the delivery man and the horse that was waiting for him.
The last person that I will be talking about is D.W. Griffiths, he was a U.S. film director and one of the very first people who had supported the idea of editing a piece of film. He had made good use of the cross cutting to show the parallel action in different locations, Griffiths was one of the first of early directors and one of his most controversial film and possibly one of his best remembered was the film, The Birth Of A Nation which was made in 1915
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