CINE 121: Early Cinema, Origins, Prehistories (W1)

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Cinema of Attractions

A term coined by film historian Tom Gunning, it refers to an early cinema approach characterized by a focus on spectacle and direct engagement with the audience, emphasizing visual wonder over narrative storytelling.

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Trompe l’oeil

Pre-cinematic device uses light to create optical illusions and make visible ghosts, phantasms, spirits, and demons

<p>Pre-cinematic device uses light to create optical illusions and make visible ghosts, phantasms, spirits, and demons</p>
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Thaumatrope

Pre-cinematic device that creates the illusion of motion through the use of two images on either side of a rotating disk.

<p>Pre-cinematic device that creates the illusion of motion through the use of two images on either side of a rotating disk. </p>
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Phenakistoscopes

Pre-cinematic device consisting of a disk with images that, when spun, creates the illusion of movement via a series of slits that allow the viewer to see successive images in motion.

<p>Pre-cinematic device consisting of a disk with images that, when spun, creates the illusion of movement via a series of slits that allow the viewer to see successive images in motion. </p>
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Praxinoscope

Pre-cinematic device that uses a spinning drum with pictures inside that creates a smooth moving scene from still images.

<p>Pre-cinematic device that uses a spinning drum with pictures inside that creates a smooth moving scene from still images. </p>
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Zoopraxiscope

Pre-cinematic device that animates still drawings when spun rapidly (form of stop motion animation)

<p>Pre-cinematic device that animates still drawings when spun rapidly (form of stop motion animation)</p>
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Daguerreotype

Creating an image developed by the exposure of sunlight for an extended period of time

<p>Creating an image developed by the exposure of sunlight for an extended period of time</p>
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Chronophotography

Captures several phases of a moving object in regular time intervals

<p>Captures several phases of a moving object in regular time intervals</p>
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Kinetoscope

Invented by Thomas Edison, allows a single person to view a short film through a peep hole lens

<p>Invented by Thomas Edison, allows a single person to view a short film through a peep hole lens</p>
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Projection

Projected motion pictures

<p>Projected motion pictures</p>
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Reel

S cylindrical spool or frame used to hold, wind, and project a continuous strip of motion-picture film

<p>S cylindrical spool or frame used to hold, wind, and project a continuous strip of motion-picture film</p>
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Celluloid

The physical plastic film strips that movies are filmed on, goes in the reel.

<p>The physical plastic film strips that movies are filmed on, goes in the reel. </p>
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Multiple Exposure

Created by George Méliès, exposing one section of film multiple times to place several images on top of each other. (In-camera editing)

<p>Created by George Méliès, exposing one section of film multiple times to place several images on top of each other. (In-camera editing)</p>
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Substitution Splice

Created by George Méliès, an illusion of disappearance, appearance, or transformation by altering some aspect between two shots.

<p>Created by George Méliès, an illusion of disappearance, appearance, or transformation by altering some aspect between two shots. </p>
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Dissolve

One sequence fades into another by overlapping two separate shots.

<p>One sequence fades into another by overlapping two separate shots. </p>
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Film Strip

Laboratory scan of a film, which allows you to see the entire sequence of individual frames

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