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Entry: History of Film - A864245
Author: Oberon2001 - U204088

I would REALLY appreciate contributions on this one, no matter how small.
Oberon2001

do you mean movies (like the first silent, the first colour, the first talkie, the first feature lenght animated), or do you mean the physical stuff of film as made by say Kodak?

I suspect the former.

Dr Trout

... or even we should work from first principles ... like a timeline of cinematography?

Dr Trout

The whole thing. From still images right through to the modern day moving digital stuff... At least that's the idea. It might have to be split up into two bits eventually.
Oberon2001

Here are some initial sub-headers for some inspiration:

Roget, 1824

Thaumatrope, 1826

Phenakistiscope, 1833

Goodwin invented celluloid film in 1887

Thanx!
I'll begin researching them during the week. For now, I've just put the headers up.
Oberon2001

Since it depends on lenses, as well as emulsion, I'd take it back to Louwenhoek (sp?) and the Camera Obscura ...

Can you write a little on this guy and the Camera Obscura by any chance as I've got loads of other things to do in this article.
Oberon2001

Okay...
me and my big fingers...
I'll see if can get around to it...

http://www.precinemahistory.net/introduction.htm

You might find this an interesting introduction to the matter.

Robert Hooke is interesting, too, as he developed the iris diaphragm.

but the part that I am having trouble nailing down is the developer of the maltese cross shutter... Some say Meisser, some say Brown...

more later.

I've updated the entry a bit, but to be honest it's long and tedious work getting everything in, so ANY help at all would be really appreciated.
Thanx (tonsil revenge) for the info and link, consider yourself credited!
Oberon2001

I haven't done anything yet.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A867422

further notes will be found here...eventually.

1. Try this

Phenakistiscope, 1833

The Phenakistiscope was invented by Belgian Joseph Plateau at around the same time as Austrian Simon Ritter von Stampfer was inventing his Wheel of Life. Both devices consisted of a pair of discs on a single axle. One disc was adorned with a small number of sequential drawings; the second disc was equipped with eye slits. By spinning the first disc behind the second disc, the slits acted as a shutter and created for the viewer the illusion of movement. It may seem a rudimentary and simplistic form of animation today, but in 1833 it was revolutionary. For the first time, people were able to see 'moving pictures'.

2. Spelling

Re: Roget ... persistence, not persistance, and deliberately, not delibrately.

3. Camera Obscura ... maybe insert this paragraph immediately below the title.

Literally translated from the Latin as 'a dark room', the Camera Obscura works on the principle that in a darkened room with only a single 'pinhole' light-source, an image of the outside view from the hole will be projected onto the back wall opposite the hole. Reportedly, Aristotle (384-322 BC) was familiar with the concept.

4. Le Prince

Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, 1888

In 1888, what is believed to be the first photographed and projected motion picture was made by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince when he filmed his in-laws Whitley and his son Adolphe Le Prince in the garden of their house in Leeds, England.

5. Marvelous Cinematograph, 1895

Marvelous Cinematograph, 1895

Jean Acmé Leroy was giving movie shows for a paying public in Clinton, New Jersey in February 1895, using his device called the Marvellous Cinematograph.

Wow! Thanks for all that
I've added it all and credited you as a researchers.
Oberon2001

everyone, this is simply too big.
So gone FM ->
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Hopefully someone will pick this up for a Uni project, it really is that big!
Oberon2001

Hello - I've attempted to rescue this article, the new version can be found here:
The Early History and Development of Film - A87784069
With the Peer Review thread here: F48874?thread=8299775

Any comments, let me know!

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It is now in the Edited Guide! See: A87789208 The Early History and Development of Film

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