Editing in early cinema
The concept of media has developed significantly over the last 200 years.
Starting with Thomas Edison, you may know Edison from inventing the lightbulb but he is also known for other things. Edison ran a laboratory where the Kinetographic camera and the Kinetoscope were invented, he also manufactured the 35 mm film strip, this came to be industry standard. Finally Thomas Edison also developed the projector to play these movies on. All of Edison's inventions help develop editing in early cinema, due to the fact that it allowed others to progress in editing.
Secondly, The Lumiere brothers. Lumiere brothers worked with Thomas Edison and they together created short films that were a long length of time to them, but if this was to be shown in the cinema now we wouldn't be too happy. The movies were static and a locked down shot. The Lumieres and Edison thought motion in the shot was all that was needed to amuse the audience, therefore the first films directly showed movement, such as traffic moving on city highway. This is shown in the film Sortie d'usine in 1895 by The Lumiere Brothers.
G.A Smith, in the beginning there was no story and no editing, every film was as long as how much film was in the camera at that time. An example of this, the films called The Miller and The Sweep in 1898 by G.A Smith. Smith often used sophisticated special effects , he used close ups and screen transitions involving wipes and focus pulls. In 1906 he invented the Kinemacolor, this was the worlds first commercial cinema colour system.
George Melies was a magician who had seen the films made by the Lumiere brothers. Meilies acquired a camera, wrote scripts, designed sets and later discovered basic camera tricks we know very well today. In 1886 he produced The Vanishing lady using different techniques in camera editing. Later on G.A Smtih made kiss in the tunnel, this film marked the beginning of narrative writing.
Porter & Edison, Porter was an electrician prior joining Thomas Edison in the film laboratory in the late 1890s. Together they worked to produce longer and more interesting films. Porters breakthrough into film was his movie ''Life of an American Fireman in 1903''. This film was the first that had a plot, involved action, and even a close up of a hand. Porter discovered important aspects of most picture language: the screen image does not need to show a complete person from head to toe. Together two shots creates in viewers mind a contextual relationship. These key discoveries that made all narrative motion pictures and television.
Charles Pathe, the film The Horse that Bolted 1907 Pathe the first example of a technique known as parallel cutting between two story lines ''parallel editing'' in the The Horse that bolted.
D.W Griffith's, was a US film director he was one the early supporter of the power of editing. He made use of crosscutting to show parallel action.
Secondly, The Lumiere brothers. Lumiere brothers worked with Thomas Edison and they together created short films that were a long length of time to them, but if this was to be shown in the cinema now we wouldn't be too happy. The movies were static and a locked down shot. The Lumieres and Edison thought motion in the shot was all that was needed to amuse the audience, therefore the first films directly showed movement, such as traffic moving on city highway. This is shown in the film Sortie d'usine in 1895 by The Lumiere Brothers.
G.A Smith, in the beginning there was no story and no editing, every film was as long as how much film was in the camera at that time. An example of this, the films called The Miller and The Sweep in 1898 by G.A Smith. Smith often used sophisticated special effects , he used close ups and screen transitions involving wipes and focus pulls. In 1906 he invented the Kinemacolor, this was the worlds first commercial cinema colour system.
George Melies was a magician who had seen the films made by the Lumiere brothers. Meilies acquired a camera, wrote scripts, designed sets and later discovered basic camera tricks we know very well today. In 1886 he produced The Vanishing lady using different techniques in camera editing. Later on G.A Smtih made kiss in the tunnel, this film marked the beginning of narrative writing.
Porter & Edison, Porter was an electrician prior joining Thomas Edison in the film laboratory in the late 1890s. Together they worked to produce longer and more interesting films. Porters breakthrough into film was his movie ''Life of an American Fireman in 1903''. This film was the first that had a plot, involved action, and even a close up of a hand. Porter discovered important aspects of most picture language: the screen image does not need to show a complete person from head to toe. Together two shots creates in viewers mind a contextual relationship. These key discoveries that made all narrative motion pictures and television.
Charles Pathe, the film The Horse that Bolted 1907 Pathe the first example of a technique known as parallel cutting between two story lines ''parallel editing'' in the The Horse that bolted.
D.W Griffith's, was a US film director he was one the early supporter of the power of editing. He made use of crosscutting to show parallel action.
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ReplyDeleteToni, you must embed each of the videos you refer to and make sure you explain what we see in each one and how it shows that editing styles have moved forward.
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