To browse Academia. Film history 2. De ses origines a nos jours. Our first thanks go to Leslie Mitchner of Rutgers University Press for commissioning this volume and believing in it from the outset.
We also give our deepest thanks to Dana Miller for a superb typing job; to Jerry Ohlinger for the many stills that grace this volume; to Michael Andersen for his assistance with the bibliography; to Dennis Coleman for help in research; to Virginia Clark for tirelessly checking facts and copyediting the first draft; to Eric Schramm for an excellent job of copyediting subsequent drafts; and to David Sterritt for a thorough and meticulous reading of the final text.
The history of film began in the s when the British Royal Society of Surgeons made pioneering efforts. In Edward Muybridge, an American photographer, did make a series of photographs of a running horse by using a series of cameras with glass plate film and fast exposure. By , Thomas A. Dickson, developed a camera that made short 35mm films. In , the Limiere brothers developed a device that not only took motion pictures but projected them as well in France.
The first use of animation in movies was in , with the production of the short film. The use of different camera speeds also appeared around in the films of Robert W. Paul and Hepworth. The technique of single frame animation was further developed in by Edwin S. Porter in the Teddy Bears. Griffith had the highest standing among American directors in the industry because of creative ventures. The years of the First World War were a complex transitional period for the fil Cinema was a product of the second-stage Industrial Revolution.
This article examines some aspects of the technological and economic history of cinema and that revolution. It draws on secondary material on the electrical and chemical developments beginning in the late nineteenth century, and on primary research on particular case studies where cinema technology was used to further the economic objectives of industrial and financial organisations.
