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Early cinema 1890s - 1913. 1890s Edison’s Kinetoscope 1895-1905 Lumières Late 1890s Méliès makes first films 1902 - Melies’s Trip to the Moon 1904 -1912 experiments with narrative By about 1913 - narrative system established. Some popular types of early films. Actualities, Travel logs
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Early cinema1890s - 1913 1890s Edison’s Kinetoscope 1895-1905 Lumières Late 1890s Méliès makes first films 1902 - Melies’s Trip to the Moon 1904 -1912 experiments with narrative By about 1913 - narrative system established
Some popular types of early films Actualities, Travel logs Stories based upon current events Blue Movies & Pornography for Peep shows Trick films Gag or physical humor films
Méliès • - Interested in appearance and disappearance • - The ability of cinema to make things visible/invisible • - Used camera like a magic trick • Films play with presence and absence • Also, thematize technology and machine-produce images
Méliès - Subversion of natural order of things, materiality, • Upsets hierarchies of nature, physics, gender, class • Irreverent stance towards science • Mocks/quotes travel logs, actualities
Méliès vs the Lumières The magician The documenters Fantasy/ Sci-Fi Realism Mise-en-scene Photographic base Trickery Recording life special fx Creative Purely manipulation observational -deforming the real -respect for the real