Thomas Edison
Ran a film laboratory where the kinetographic camera and the kinotoscope were invented. He developed the 35mm film strip that came to be the industry standard. H also developed the projector to play it.
early film making in the late 1800s:
This shows us the introduction to editing in cinema and how it became revolutionary.
The Lumiere Brothers
Edison worked with the Lumiere brothers and produced short films that were a long, static, locked-down shot. Motion in the shot was all that was necessary to amuse an audience, so the first films simply showed activity such as traffic moving on a city street. this can be seen i the film Sortie D'usine (1895) by the Lumiere brothers.
Workers Leaving A Factory:
One of the first films ever made which astounded people that the people were moving. it was filmed using a static camera.
Workers Leaving A Factory:
One of the first films ever made which astounded people that the people were moving. it was filmed using a static camera.
George Melies
George was a magician who had seen the films made by the Lumiere Brothers. Melies saw at once the possibilities of a novelty more than just a motion its self. He acquired a camera, built a studio, wrote scripts, designed sets and soon he discovered an exploited the basic camera tricks we know so well today. In 1896 he made The Vanishing Lady using a technique know as in-camera editing. In 1899 G.A Smith made the Kiss in the Tunnel. This film is said to mark the beginnings of narrative editing (creating a story) Smith felt that some extra spice was called for in the popukar "phantom ride" genre. He took advantage of the brief onset of darkness as they went into the tunnel to splice (cut and then stick two pieces of film together) in the shot of the couple.The Vanishing Lady: This was created by a magician and he introduced the early stop motion filming trick. Making this historical clip of a vanishing woman.
He worked as an electrician before joining the film laboratory of Thomas AWA Edison in the late 1890s. He and Edison worked together to make longer more interesting films. Porter made the breakthrough film life of an American fireman in 1903. The film was among the first that had a plot. He discovered important aspects of motion picture language that the screen image does not need to show a complete person from head to toe. That splicing together two shots creates in the viewers mind a contextual relationships. These were the key discoveries that made all narrative motion pictures and television possible.
The Great Train Robbery was a much longer film and it had more features. Scenes, action, a bit of colour and more of a storyline was added. People were horrified when they see people die because it was such a shock because they had not had anything like this before.
Charles Pathe
In the film The Horse that Bolted (1907) Charles Pathe introduces the first example of a technique known as parallel editing- cutting between two story-lines:
the horse
the delivery man
U.S film
director D.W Griffith was one of the early supporters of the power of editing. He made use of cross-cutting to show parallel action in different locations. Griffiths work was highly regarded by many and greatly influenced the early filmmakers understanding of editing.
director D.W Griffith was one of the early supporters of the power of editing. He made use of cross-cutting to show parallel action in different locations. Griffiths work was highly regarded by many and greatly influenced the early filmmakers understanding of editing.
