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MOTION GRAPHICSby Sam Watson

Overview

“The Origin of Intent” - Prehistory and Antiquity“The Birth of Cinema” - The “Magic Lantern” to Latham Loop

“And then there was sound!” - “Talkies”“But what about us?” - Saul Bass and Pablo Ferro

The End - Q & A and article discussion

“The Origin of Intent”

Prehistory and Antiquity

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http://precinemahistory.net/900.htm

Before 10000 B.C.3000-2000 B.C.

121 B.C.

(Ceram 27)

“The Birth of Cinema”

The “Magic Lantern”

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The Inventor

Name: Father Athanasius Kircherb.1602 - d.1680Occupation: Jesuit PriestNationality: GermanOther: Author of Ars MagnaLucis et Umbrae (1646)

http://www.luikerwaal.com/newframe_uk.htm?/wonder1_uk.htm

Oldest existing Magic LanternMade in 1720 by Dutch instrument maker Jan van Musschenbroek

EidophusikonThe Inventor

Name: Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourgb.1740 - d.1812Occupation: ArtistNationality: English (orignally French)Other: Paintings of naval battles

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http://www.acmi.net.au/AIC/eidophusikon.gif

FantasmagoriaThe Inventor

Name: E.G. Robertsonb.1764 - d.1837Occupation: ShowmanNationality: BelgianOther: Patented Fantoscope.

http://www.museecinemaphoto.com/projection/Robertson.jpg

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PanoramaThe Inventor

Name: Robert Barkerb.1739 - d.1806Occupation: PainterNationality: English

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DioramaThe Inventor

Name: Louis Jacques Mande Daguerreb.1787 - d.1851Occupation: ArtistNationality: FrenchOther: Invents Daguerreotype.

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http://www.midley.co.uk/diorama/Diorama_Wood_1_3_files/diorama_wood_fig_03_s.gif

Phenakistoscope


Name: Joseph AntoineFerdinand Plateau b.1801 - d.1883Occupation: PhysicistNationality: BelgianOther: Law of Stroboscopic Effect (1836)

http://billdouglas.ex.ac.uk/eve/object_images/69236-2.jpg

The Inventor

“Lantern Wheel of Light”


Name: Baron Franz von Uchatius b.1811 - d.1881Occupation: Professional SoldierNationality: Austrian

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The Inventor

Kinematoscope

Name: Coleman Sellers b.1827 - d.1907Occupation: EngineerNationality: American

The Inventor

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Phasmatrope

http://www.precinemahistory.net/images/rudge_phantascope.jpg

Name: Henry Reno Heyl b.18?? - d.????Occupation: InventorNationality: AmericanOther: Invented stapler.

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The Inventor

Stop-Action Series PhotographyThe Inventor

Name: Eadweard James Muybridgeb.1830 - d.1904Occupation: PhotographerNationality: EnglishOther: Zoopraxiscope, Zoogryo-scope

http://americanhistory.si.edu/muybridge/img/jpgs/i_1_03.jpg

http://www.joyfulexpressions-photography-art.com/images/Muybridgehorse-in-motionChart2.jpg

Praxinscope

http://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/results.asp?image=10302565&wwwflag=2&imagepos=42

Name: Charles-Emile Reynaud b.1844 - d.1918Occupation: Science TeacherNationality: FrenchOther: Théâtre Optique, first animated film

The Inventor

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ZoopraxiscopeThe Inventor

Name: Eadweard James Muybridgeb.1830 - d.1904Occupation: PhotographerNationality: EnglishOther: Stop-Action Series Photography, Zoogryoscope

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“Gun Camera”

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The Inventor

Name: Étienne-Jules Mareyb.1830 - d.1904Occupation: ScientistNationality: FrenchOther: Chronophotography

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TachyscopeThe Inventor

Name: Ottomar Anschützb.1846 - d.1907Occupation: PhotographerNationality: GermanOther: Goerz/Anschütz Camera, Electrotachyscope

http://www.lilienthal-museum.de/olma/documents/ansch.jpg

http://www.victorian-cinema.net/tachyscope.jpg

ElectrotachyscopeThe Inventor

Name: Ottomar Anschützb.1846 - d.1907Occupation: PhotographerNationality: GermanOther: Goerz/Anschütz Camera, Tachyscope

http://www.lilienthal-museum.de/olma/documents/ansch.jpg

http://www.victorian-cinema.net/electricalschnellseher.jpg

Théâtre Optique

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Name: Charles-Emile Reynaud b.1844 - d.1918Occupation: Science TeacherNationality: FrenchOther: Praxinscope, first animat-ed film

The Inventor

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LPCC 16-lens Camera

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The Inventor

Name: Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince b.1841 - d.1890Occupation: Chemist, EngineerNationality: FrenchOther: Earliest extant film strip

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Kinetograph & KinetoscopeThe Inventor

Name: William Kennedy Laurie Dickson b.1860 - d.1935Occupation: InventorNationality: BritishOther: First film director.

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MutoscopeThe Inventor

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Name: Herman Casler b.1867 - d.1939Occupation: InventorNationality: American

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“The Black Maria”The Inventor

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Name: Thomas Alva Edison b.1847 - d.1931Occupation: InventorNationality: AmericanOther: Phonograph, lightbulb...

http://www.electronicsandyou.com/electronics-history/Thomas%20Alva%20Edison.jpg

PhantoscopeThe Inventor

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Name: Charles Francis Jenkins b.1867 - d.1934Occupation: InventorNationality: AmericanOther: Television

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CinematographeThe Inventors

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Name: Louis Lumière b.1864 - d.1948Occupation: FilmmakerNationality: French

Name: Auguste Lumière b.1862 - d.1954Occupation: FilmmakerNationality: French

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Latham Loop

http://www.acmi.net.au/AIC/LATHAM_LOOP.GIF

The Inventor

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Name: Woodville Latham b.1837 - d.1911Occupation: Chemistry ProfessorNationality: American

“And then there was sound!”

“Talkies”The First

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The Jazz Singer 1927Warner Bros.

Singin’ in the Rain1952MGM

Some Background

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“But what about us?”

Saul Bass

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The Graphic Designer

b.1920 - d.1996Nationality: American

Example

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Pablo Ferro

http://www.filmreference.com/images/sjff_04_img1434.jpg

The Graphic Designer

b.1935Nationality: Cuban-American

Example

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Roundhay Garden Scene. Dir. Louis Le Prince. 1888.

Singin’ in the Rain. Dir. Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen. Perf. Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen, and Millard Mitchell. MGM, 1952.

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