A fascinating article about how different technologies have changed movie making through the ages.6/22/2017
One industry that has been expansively affected by technological changes is film. Both mechanical and digital innovations have influenced everything from equipment to distribution, changing how films are made and the manner in which we consume them.
With the medium being just around 120 years old, we take a look at the biggest tech innovations that, through time, changed film for the better. Movie camera – late 1800s The movie camera – a camera that could capture a sequence of photographs onto filmstrip in quick succession – was a late invention of the 1800s, and without it we wouldn’t have the visual medium that we all love to enjoy while in dark rooms chomping on popcorn and answering our cellphones. Trying to date which movie camera was invented first is like trying to determine what the first movie of all time was: futile. For as many people who say Louis Le Prince’s camera in 1888 was first, an equal number will say it was William Friese-Greene’s in 1889. Someone’s bound to argue the Chinese invented it earlier. Despite many technical displays of ‘moving images’ around the time, I would argue that it was the Lumière brothers who took the medium to the masses and influenced early pioneers such as George Méliès, who arguably was the first person to add narrative to moving images. The Lumière brothers held some of the earliest screenings of projected images in 1895, where their film, The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station, notoriously showed a train entering a station (literally moving towards the screen). Allegedly the audience ran away from the screen because they thought it was real. The stuff of legend. Read Entire Article: https://memeburn.com/2013/02/9-tech-innovations-that-changed-the-film-industry-through-the-ages/ Comments are closed.
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