The first projected primary proto-movie was made by Eadweard Muybridge some time between 1877 and 1880. The oldest surviving film (of the genera called pictorial realism) was created by Louis Le Princ ...
In the short term, the introduction of live sound recording caused major difficulties in production. Cameras were noisy, so a soundproofed cabinet was used in many of the earliest talkies to isolate t ...
The idea of combining motion pictures with recorded sound is nearly as old as the concept of cinema itself. On February 27, 1888, a couple of days after photographic pioneer Eadweard Muybridge gave a ...
In Filmmaking and video production, a scene is generally thought of as the action in a single location and continuous time. Due to the ability to edit recorded visual works, it is typically much short ...
Early films were short films that were one long, static, and locked-down shot. Motion in the shot was all that was necessary to amuse an audience, so the first films simply showed activity such as tra ...
By camera placement "Shots" referring to camera placement and angle rather than field size include:Camera angles:the aerial shot,the bird's-eye shot (sometimes performed as a crane shot),the low-angle ...
New York has architecturally noteworthy buildings in a wide range of styles and from distinct time periods, from the saltbox style Pieter Claesen Wyckoff House in Brooklyn, the oldest section of which ...
The first Vitascope exhibition A small advertisement, mixed in with dozens of other theatre ads in the New York Times on April 19, 1896 read:KOSTER AND BIAL'S MUSIC HALL, 34th st.TO-MORROW (MONDAY) NI ...
An encounter with the work and ideas of photographic pioneer Eadweard Muybridge appears to have spurred Edison to pursue the development of a motion picture system. On February 25, 1888, in Orange, Ne ...
The size of the core is dependent on several factors. A smaller core will obviously allow more material to be stored in a given space. However, there is a limit to how tightly the stored material can ...
Nitrocellulose Nitrocellulose-based plastics slightly predate celluloid. Collodion, invented in 1848 and used as a wound dressing and an emulsion for photographic plates, is dried to a celluloid-like ...
The zoopraxiscope is an early device for displaying motion pictures. Created by photographic pioneer Eadweard Muybridge in 1879, it may be considered the first movie projector. The zoopraxiscope proje ...
Many famous astronomical surveys were taken using photographic plates, including the first Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS) of the 1950s, the follow-up POSS-II survey of the 1990s, and the UK Sch ...
Edward James Muggeridge was born and raised in England. Muggeridge changed his name several times, starting with "Muggridge". In the 1850s in the United States, he used the surname "Muygridge".After h ...
Photometric or luminous exposure Hv is the accumulated physical quantity of visible light energy (weighted by the luminosity function) per area applied to a surface during a given exposure time. It is ...
