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Diorama
Early 1800s

Invented by Louis Daguerre

Painting on linen with subtle lighting effects

Sounds/live performers eventually added

(Relatively) immobile spectators

Produces a "mobile gaze"

A confined place that offers a virtual journey

Pleasure of immersion


Stan Brakhage





Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)

Chroma key compositing
green screen

Speed Racer
(Lana Wachowski and Lilly Wachowski, 2008)

Speed Racer
Originally manga (1966)
Adapted into anime (1967)
English version one of the earliest examples of anime's success in the west



The Matrix
The computer's POV

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Stargate sequence

Proto-cinematic visual culture
CAMERA OBSCURA -- Light is inverted through a small hole or lens from outside, and projected onto a surface or screen, creating a projected moving image, indistinguishable from a projected high quality film to an audience, but it is not preserved in a recording –around 1600
SHADOW DANCING - Shadow dancing, using projected light in combination with acting or dancing, is an ancient art in many world cultures, and includes projection from a light source.
MAGIC LANTERN – slide projection



The Dream of Cinema
Projected motion pictures became a reality in 1890s, but the dream of throwing pictures on a wall goes back many years.
Plato's allegory of the cave – highly influential in thinking about cinema (The Matrix)
Emergence – key term here
A number of important precursor that all contributed to the emergence of the cinema


What is (digital) cinema ?
September 1, 2016

Panorama
Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010)

Under the Skin (2013)
Opening

Ant Man (2015)
Quantum realm

Duck Amok (1953)


Tron (1982)
CGI and "backlit animation"

Kinetoscope
Previewed at the in Brooklyn, May 1893
One customer at a time
For a penny or nickel in the slot one could watch brief 35mm films run on a loop
About 15 seconds long
Thaumatrope, 1832
Zoetrope, 1834
Eadweard Muybridge, 1877
Chronophotography
Multiple exposed images to study movement
Machinic perception
The optical unconscious
Seeing what you can't see with the naked eye
Animation becomes cinema
But whither animation?
"Everything which characterized moving pictures before the 20th century—manual construction of images, loop actions, the discrete nature of space and movement—all of this was delegated to cinema's bastard relative, its supplement, its shadow—animation."
(Manovich 5)

Wacky Races (Hanna-Barbera, 1968)
Etienne-Jules Marey, 1882
Edison enters the picture
Kodak celluloid films becomes available, 1889
Edison says he wants "to devise an instrument which will do for the eye what the phonograph did for the ear"
Edison patents the Kinetograph developed by his employee William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, which photographs the sequence of images on a strip of film. An electrically lit and motorized arcade-type machine, the Kinetoscope, was used for viewing. -- 1891

Edison's first film studio
Edison Laboratories builds a film studio, in West Orange, New Jersey, dubbed the Black Maria. It was built on a turntable so the window could rotate toward the sun throughout the day, supplying natural light for the productions. -- 1893

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