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Early cinema 1890s - 1913

Discover the revolutionary films of the 1890s to 1913, focusing on Georges Méliès and Lumière Brothers, their narrative experiments, and film types ranging from trick films to actualities. Explore how Méliès subverted natural order and technology, while the Lumière Brothers embraced realism. Delve into diegesis, on-screen/off-screen space, and camera techniques like frontal shots and non-closure. Gain insights into early cinema evolution!

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Early cinema 1890s - 1913

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  1. Early cinema1890s - 1913 1890s Edison’s Kinetoscope 1895-1905 Lumières Late 1890s Méliès makes first films 1902 - Melies’s Trip to the Moon 1904 -1912 experiments with narrative By about 1913 - narrative system established

  2. Some popular types of early films Actualities, Travel logs Stories based upon current events Blue Movies & Pornography for Peep shows Trick films Gag or physical humor films

  3. Méliès • - Interested in appearance and disappearance • - The ability of cinema to make things visible/invisible • - Used camera like a magic trick • Films play with presence and absence • Also, thematize technology and machine-produce images

  4. Méliès - Subversion of natural order of things, materiality, • Upsets hierarchies of nature, physics, gender, class • Irreverent stance towards science • Mocks/quotes travel logs, actualities

  5. Méliès vs the Lumières The magician The documenters Fantasy/ Sci-Fi Realism Mise-en-scene Photographic base Trickery Recording life special fx Creative Purely manipulation observational -deforming the real -respect for the real

  6. The Shot

  7. Diegesis=the total world of the film’s story

  8. Diegeticvs. Non-Diegetic

  9. On-Screen SpaceandOff-Screen Space

  10. Méliès vs.The Lumière Bros.

  11. AUTARKY or UNICITYof the frame

  12. Non-Centered Quality of the Image

  13. Camera Distance(almost always a medium-long shot)

  14. Non-closureand a Fundamental Non-linearity

  15. FRONTALITY

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