Audience interaction with the moving image

1. Audience interaction with the moving image

2. The first ‘moving pictures’ • The principle of the camera obscura can be demonstrated with a rudimentary type, just a box with a hole in one side. Light from only one part of a scene will pass through the hole and strike a specific part of the back wall. • Camera = Latin for “room”Obscura = Latin for “dark” • The earliest mention of this type of device was by the Chinese philosopher Mo-Ti (5th century BC).

3. Moving Photographs • Eadweard Muybridge (April 9, 1830 – May 8, 1904) was an English-born photographer, known primarily for his early use of multiple cameras to capture motion, and his zoopraxiscope, a device for projecting motion pictures that pre-dated celluloid film strip still used today. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Muybridge_race_horse_animated.gif • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Muybridge_Buffalo_galloping.gif

4. The Zoopraxinoscope (1878 introduced by Eadweard Muybridge)

5. 1885 - American inventors George Eastman and Hannibal Goodwin each invent a sensitized celluloid base roll photographic film to replace the glass plates then in use. 1888 - Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince creates the first motion picture films created on paper rolls of film. 1889 - American inventor George Eastman's celluloid base roll photographic film becomes commercially available.

6. Kinetoscope (W.K-L. Dickson-Thomas Edison)The Kinetoscope The 35 mm film travelled continuously over a bank of rollers, each picture being viewed briefly through a narrow slot in the revolving shutter

7. Kinetoscope Parlor, circa 1895

8. The cinématographe is a film camera, which also serves as a film projector and developer. It was invented in the 1890s and usually credited to Auguste and Louis Lumière

9. The development of Cinema • The Nickelodeon was an early 20th century form of small, neighborhood movie theaters in the United States in which admission was obtained for a nickel. By 1907, one estimate (based on basic business economics) was that an average of over two million people attended the nickelodeons daily. The popularity of these affordable, entertaining, and highly profitable venues was such that their numbers mushroomed to approximately 8,000 in the U.S. by 1908.

10. The Nickelodeon (circa1905)

13. The coming of television

14. Cinema competes with television

15. Imax Cinemas

16. Cinerama is the trademarked name for a widescreen process which works by simultaneously projecting images from three synchronized 35 mm projectors onto a huge, deeply-curved screen, subtending 146° of arc.

17. The mid 70s saw the introduction of the home video recorder

19. Betamax tape VHS tape Rival companies warred over two formats

21. The laserdisc (LD) was the first commercial optical disc storage medium, and was used primarily for the presentation of films. • The laserdisc (left) compared to a DVD

22. The DVD • DVD (commonly known as "Digital Versatile Disc" or "Digital Video Disc") is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for data storage, including movies with high video and sound quality. DVDs resemble Compact Discs as their diameter is the same (120 mm or 4.72 inches, or occasionally 80 mm or 3.15 inches), but they are encoded in a different format and at a much higher density.

23. Home Cinema

26. http://www.7digital.com/stores/default.aspx?shop=286 Downloading film vs. streaming

27. Who watches film on one of these?

28. http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/general-film-chat/8091-cinema-experience.htmlhttp://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/general-film-chat/8091-cinema-experience.html What is the best way to view a film?

29. In the HD DVD versus Blu-ray contest, we’re back to rival formats competing for the same audience. Different films were released on different formats. Pirates of the Caribbean movies on Blu-ray outsold The Matrix trilogy on HD DVD when released in the same week in 2007. According to US site The Hollywood Reporter, the Pirates movies sold a timber-shivering 47,000 units in the US, with the Matrix box set shifting around 14,000.