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This blog was created as an extension of the dialogue that began in our classroom and the purpose is to share creative ideas, images, and critiscm. All posts should be appropriate for the high school classroom and critiscm should be helpful and positive.

Friday, February 15, 2013

Media Arts: Film History


In media class we began to learn about the history of film including the phenomenon of persistence of vision and the development of a standard 24 Frames Per Second which makes film possible, early predecessors to film such as the camera obscura (Latin; camera for "vaulted chamber/room", obscura for "dark", together "darkened chamber/room") and the zoetrope (Greek taken to mean "active turn" or "wheel of life") and the men who invented the camera: Thomas Edison and William K. Dickson as well as the film projector, The Lumiere Brothers who's first film La Sortie des usines Lumière à Lyon which is displayed above was shown at Paris's Grand Café on December 28, 1895 along with others such as Le Repas de Bébé and later the popular Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat shown below

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