We were able to tour the Lumiere museum yesterday. This museum was actually the former home of Antione Lumiere converted into a museum. This museum was able to show the progression of the development of the cinema we know today from the single shot cameras and film. This started with reducing the time to take a photo from 6 hours, which included the preparation of the film, to just a few seconds. Then people wanted to take photos in quick succession, which gave rise to cameras that could do short bursts of photos. From there though, the other question was how to view these photos in quick succession. Edison had attempted to find the solution to this with his "kinetiscope", but it was a large object with only enough viewing space for a single person. The Lumieres were able to solve bother of these problems with their device, the "cinematographie." This device was able to record about a minute of film, then could be set up in a way to project the images and in quick succession to make the pictures seem to move. This actually freaked out audiences that saw some of these films when viewings were first allowed. The Lumieres would go on to record over 1000 short one minute films. It is amazing that we only have to go back a little over a century for the beginning of the filming technology that many of us have been impacted heavily by.
- Zacharia Houghton
I found it interesting how the first films caused such a strong reaction out of their audience. People literally jumped out of the way of a train that was being projected to them, even though it was just a moving image. Its crazy to think that it was such a bizarre concept people couldn't comprehend what they were seeing. Thinking the train was actually coming towards them. It is like when we first had 3D movies, a whole new world being showed to us. When it felt like the dinosaur was coming out of the screen to eat us. It is especially amazing when we consider how new this technology is. Like you said it has only been around for about a century. Technology has adapted so far from that, it seems strange that that time isn't as far away as we think.
ReplyDeleteIt’s interesting to see the development of cameras back then and also the jump in our own generation with camera and display technology. If we look at equipment from 1-2 decades ago, the level of details in nature that could be captured and redisplayed was a lot less (Eg: details of waterfalls, fast movement, poor lighting at night, texture, aerial photography).
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