task1a - history of documentaries
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Director - Eadweard Muybridge
Name - Movies Begin: Vol. I: Motion Studies
Year - 1877-85
Country- England
Story - sequential photographs of horses in motion
Technology used - zoöpraxiscope
Era Director, Documentary, year, country and Style
Technology
18th Centaury
Eadweard Muybridge, Movies Begin: Vol. I: Motion Studies, 1877, UK
Zoöpraxiscope, a device for projecting and "animating" his photographic images.
1910 Edward Curtis, In the Land of the War Canoes, 1914, USA, Black & White
1920 Walther Ruttmann, Berlin: A Symphony of a Great City, 1927, USA, Black and White
Fluid camera work and montage and abstract narratives
1930 Pare Lorenz, The Plow That Broke the Plains, 1936, USA
1940 Prelude to War, 1942, USA
1950 Cinema Verite: Defining the Moment (1950) Newly developed, lightweight, hand-held cameras with synchronized sound Sets and props are never used and films shot on location
1960 Robert Drew, Primary, 1960, USA, Black and White
Sync-sound motion where you are able to move freely with characters
1970 Alan and Susan Raymond, An American Family, 1973
1980 Ken Burns, The Civil War, 1984
1990 The Blair Witch Project, 1999, UK
2000 Fear Factor, 2001, USA