Saturday, November 26, 2011
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
The Beginning of the Industry...
The movies... something we take for granted today. With Cineplex Cinema's 4$ tuesday tickets, everyone can see a movie, any movie really, for a cheap price and just for fun. Ask your grandmother about the movie theatres when she was a kid... you're going to hear a whole different kind of story. Way back when, a movie was a big treat, and took a whole lot shorter of a production time. Why? Because the technology and special effects were'nt as big a part of the process as they are today. In the early movies, the acting was the focus of the storyline, not big explosions and all the cool stuff that goes on today.
In the early days, back before grandma's grandma was even alive (1830's) moving images were used for research, such as seeing wether a horse's feet were ever all off the ground at once- which they were'nt, proved by this fabulous new science-or to study human movement. At that time, it was solely for research purposes, which is kind of awesome, considering entertainment remained in plays and dances performed in theatres... movie theatres didn't even exist!
Originally, these research movies were only visible to one person at a time, by looking through a peephole in a dark box, to see the film lit from behind moving quickly upwards. Quite a headache if you ask me... It was only through a projector system that it became available to the public, and people started to call them "the moving pictures". From there it was just the moving pictures, as sound wasn't introduced into films until the 1920's.
Ever watched a silent movie? Chances are that the movie you watched was produced before 1920, and reworked into VHS or even DVD... but we'll get there some other time... that's still way too advanced for us moving pictures fanatics.
In the early days, back before grandma's grandma was even alive (1830's) moving images were used for research, such as seeing wether a horse's feet were ever all off the ground at once- which they were'nt, proved by this fabulous new science-or to study human movement. At that time, it was solely for research purposes, which is kind of awesome, considering entertainment remained in plays and dances performed in theatres... movie theatres didn't even exist!
Originally, these research movies were only visible to one person at a time, by looking through a peephole in a dark box, to see the film lit from behind moving quickly upwards. Quite a headache if you ask me... It was only through a projector system that it became available to the public, and people started to call them "the moving pictures". From there it was just the moving pictures, as sound wasn't introduced into films until the 1920's.
Ever watched a silent movie? Chances are that the movie you watched was produced before 1920, and reworked into VHS or even DVD... but we'll get there some other time... that's still way too advanced for us moving pictures fanatics.
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