Preconditions for Live-Action Moving Pictures (“Movies”)

Preconditions for Live-Action Movies

1. Understanding the Persistence of Vision phenomenon

Preconditions for Live-Action Movies

1. Understanding the Persistence of Vision phenomenon

2. Photography (rather than hand-drawn images)

Preconditions for Live-Action Movies

1. Understanding the Persistence of Vision phenomenon

2. Photography (rather than hand-drawn images)

3. A short exposure time

Preconditions for Live-Action Movies

1. Understanding the Persistence of Vision phenomenon

2. Photography (rather than hand-drawn images)

3. A short exposure time

4. Ability to move film intermittently

Preconditions for Live-Action Movies

1. Understanding the Persistence of Vision phenomenon

2. Photography (rather than hand-drawn images)

3. A short exposure time

4. Ability to move film intermittently

5. A suitable film base

Roget

Plateau

Faraday

Wheatstone

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Niepce

Daguerre

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1826 photograph by Niepce:

“View from the Window at Le Gras”

Niepce

Daguerreotype of Edgar Allen Poe, 1848

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Daguerre

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Brady did not invent it, but it bears his name. . .

Confederate dead, Fredericksburg

Action at Fredericksburg

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In 1871, the gelatin bromide process (invented by British doctor Richard Leach Maddox) brought exposure times down to a fraction of a second—”by mixing a solution of gelatin with cadmium bromide and silver nitrate, an emulsion of silver bromide was formed, suspended in the gelatin” (Rawlence, 1990) which was coated on glass or paper.

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* - George Eastman (U.S.) in 1885 developed a paper-roll film—gelatin layer soaked in water and stripped off paper after exposure, allowing for mounting on glass or thick gelatin for printing.

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