Assignment 1 -(Pioneers)


Task 1 – Pioneers

These pioneers are extremely important for their advances into the film industry by creating different theories for the illusions of movement.

Joseph Plateau - Phenakistoscope
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The phenakistiscope was invented in 1832 by Belgian physicist Joseph Plateau. It has 2 disks that spin in opposite direction so that when they overlap they will create an illusion of an image. It will only show a short continuous loop. It is now known as the first form of moving media that paved the way for the future of modern film and television. It is also the first widespread animation device that created an illusion of motion which then led to the creation of many other illusions of motion. The phenakistoscope is an example of Persistence of vision as it creates movement when there is no movement.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rzwdRqsuVM

Lumiere Brothers
Image result for lumiere brothersThe Lumiere brothers were crucial in the advancement of film and television as they started to invent and manufacture photographic equipment like an early motion-picture camera and a projector which they called Cinématographe. Louis Lumiere created the film La Sortie des ouvriers de l’usine Lumière (Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory) which is considered to be the first motion picture in the year 1885. The only equipment they used was a single camera which they used for taking the pictures and they also used it for projecting their motion pictures at 16 frames per second.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dgLEDdFddk

Thomas Edison – Kinetoscope

Image result for edisonThomas Edison is more notably famous for inventing the light bulb although he did do a lot in the advancement of motion pictures. Thomas Edison inventing the kinetoscope was a crucial invention as the frames would run at 46 frames per second as someone would look through a peep hole and the images would go past and you would be able to see the images changing as there was a light bulb behind. This resulted in a lifelike representation of objects and people in motion. Several kinetoscopes were sold in Europe and they became the first apparatus used to project motion-picture films. This resulted in the invention of the projector as the kinetoscope is an early version of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=686Y7bZYavA 

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