3000 Presentation 8: Cinema History Part 1 The Wizard and the Magician

Cinema History, Part Two
The Wizard and The Magician
Edward Bowen
Introduction to Motion Pictures

History of Motion Pictures
Thomas Edison, "The Wizard of Menlo Park,” inventor
of the electric light, the phonograph, and the movies.
True of False?

1888 – January. Louis Le Prince, an French inventor
who also worked in the United Kingdom and the United
States, is granted an American patent for a 16 lens
combination motion picture camera and projector. He is
refused a patent for a single-lens system due to an
“interfering previous patent.”

1888 - On October 8, Thomas Edison, "The Wizard of
Menlo Park,” inventor of the electric light and the
phonograph, announces his plans for a moving picture
device.
"I am experimenting upon an instrument which does for the
eye what the phonograph does for the ear, which is the
recording and reproduction of things in motion ...."
--Thomas A. Edison, 1888

1888 - On October 8, Thomas Edison, "The Wizard of
Menlo Park,” inventor of the electric light and the
phonograph, announces his plans for a moving picture
device. He assigns the task to W.K.L Dickson.

1888 - On October 14, Louis Le Prince films moving
picture sequences using a single lens camera and
Eastman’s paper film. They were publicly exhibited but
not distributed.

1888 - On October 14, Louis Le Prince films moving
picture sequences using a single lens camera and
Eastman’s paper film. They were publicly exhibited but
not distributed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkUKC7xCO2A
http://youtu.be/L7saH58usq4

1890 – On September 16, Louis Le Prince disappears
while traveling by train and is never seen again. He was
about to patent his 1889 projector in the UK and then
leave Europe for his scheduled New York official
exhibition.

1891 – On August 24, Edison is granted patents for the
Kinetograph, a motion camera …
There seems to no longer be an “interferring patent.”

Kinetograph, a motion camera … and the Kinetoscope,
a peep show device for viewing the motion pictures.

Kinetograph, a motion camera, and the Kinetoscope, a
peep show device for viewing the motion pictures.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRIjUYh3MEs

1891 – Mira Edison’s Women’s Clubs of America
members are shown what Edison and historians will
claim as the first true moving picture.
•Edison: “Dickson Greeting”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVintjK5lKU

1892 – The first full fledged movie studio, the Black
Maria, is built as W.K.L. Dickson and Edison increase
their movie output.

1892 – The first full fledged movie studio, the Black
Maria, is built as W.K.L. Dickson and Edison increase
their movie output.
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1894 – Edison and Dickson take their invention, the
Kinetograph, public and on April 14th
the first
“Kinetoscope Parlor” opens on Broadway in New York
City. Edison and Dickson produce over 75 peepshow
snippets for show this year.

1894 –Edison: “The Sneeze” “Sandow” “Carmencita”
“Leonard-Cushing Fight” “The Boxing Cats” “Sioux
Ghost Dance” “Buffalo Dance” “Bucking Bronco”
“Annie Oakley” “Imperial Japanese Dance”

Thomas Edison - The Films (1891 – 1918)
http://youtu.be/jBoyzwLBXpU Edison.mov

1895 – French brothers Auguste and Louis Lumiere
invent a hand-cranked camera and projector called “the
cinematograph.” This invention showed films projected
on a large screen for a sizeable audience and
premiered at a Paris café in December 1895.
"The cinema is an invention without a future."
-- Louis Lumiere

Auguste and Louis Lumière – The Cinematographe
Films (1895)
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Films (1895)

Films (1895)
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Patrice Leconte (1995)
Lumière and Company - Patrice Leconte http://youtu.be/TqF_F386vNA

John Boorman (1995)
Lumière and Company - John Boorman http://youtu.be/WwXAWL11RA0

Yusuf Shahin (1995)
Lumière and Company - Yusuf Shahin http://youtu.be/_sAaeeaZfQU

Theodoros Angelopoulos (1995)
Lumière and Company - Theodoros Angelopoulos http://youtu.be/-fomzTv49c0

Liv Ullmann (1995)
Lumière and Company - Liv Ullmann http://youtu.be/vNmOXkZo6yM

Zhang Yimou (1995)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shjoomJXX_s

1896 - Edison acquires the rights to a motion picture
projection device, the Phantoscope, created by C.
Francis Jenkins and Thomas Armat in 1895. He tweaks
it and changes the name to Vitascope, which debuts in
New York City on April 23, 1896.

1896 - Edison’s Kinetoscope production, “The Kiss,”
featuring popular stage star May Irwin, becomes the
first screen kiss in cinematic history and for the first time
cries for film censorship arise.
•Edison: “The Kiss” “Watermelon Eating Contest” “A
Morning Bath”

•Edison: “Watermelon Eating Contest” “A Morning
Bath”
•Lumiere: “Leaving Jerusalem by Railway” “Demolition
of a Wall”

•Edison: “Watermelon Eating Contest” “A Morning
Bath”
•Lumiere: “Leaving Jerusalem by Railway” “Demolition
of a Wall”
•Georges Melies’s First Films: Subjects: Trick Films
and Actualities

Georges Meiles – The First Auteur (1890-1902)
http://youtu.be/7_Q0m0ouIWw

1897 – Entrepreneurs realize the potential of film and
begin making the first commercials and product
placements.
Edison: “Admiral Cigarette” Subjects: Cuban War
http://youtu.be/_KmjYs1UcaY

1900 – Edison hires Edwin S. Porter, the man who
takes films from short scenes to an actual narrative with
a beginning, middle and end.
•Edison subjects: Boar War, Pan-American Exposition,
Eiffel Tower, Trick Films, “Watermelon Eating Contest
(Remake)”

1900 – Edison hires Edwin S. Porter, the man who
takes films from short scenes to an actual narrative with
a beginning, middle and end.
•Edison subjects: Boar War, Pan-Amercian Exposition,
Eiffel Tower, Trick Films, “Watermelon Eating Contest
(Remake)”
•Melies: “The One-Man Band” “The Triple Conjurer and
the Living Head”

1901 – Edison’s first studio, the Black Maria, shuts
down.
•Edison subjects: President McKinley

1902
•Edison: “Jack and the Beanstalk.” Porter strings
together several scenes to tell a story.

1902
•Edison: “Jack and the Beanstalk.” Porter strings
together several scenes to tell a story.
•Melies had done this in 1899.

1902
•Melies: “A Trip to the Moon”
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1902
•Melies: “A Trip to the Moon”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CoOdCV18Vo

1903 – The Black Maria is demolished.
•Edison: “Life of an American Fireman”
•Edison and Porter’s 12 minute film “The Great Train
Robbery” becomes America’s first blockbuster film.

Thomas Edison, Edwin S. Porter – “Life of an American
Fireman” and “The Great Train Robbery” (1903)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmsCtNq29Go

Georges Melies - Over 500 films from 1896 to 1914
http://youtu.be/Y04KFNBC_5o

“Hugo” 2011
http://youtu.be/Y04KFNBC_5o

• 1904 Edison: “Cohen’s Fire Sale”

1905 – Successful films make possible the development
of store front movie theaters. By 1906 there are
between four and five thousand Nickelodeons across
the country, entertaining 2 million customers a day.
•Edison: “The Watermelon Patch” “Laughing Gas”

1908 – Edison founds and heads the Motion Picture
Patents Company, known as “the Trust.” By 1910 the
Trust controls half of all U.S. theaters.
http://mtmedia.mtsu.edu:8888/ebowen/MAMS EP 1 Edison Trust.mov

Trust controls half of all U.S. theaters. Nickelodeon”
(1976) Peter Bogdanovich
http://mtmedia.mtsu.edu:8888/ebowen/Nickelodeon 1910 Patents Spy.mov

http://mtmedia.mtsu.edu:8888/ebowen/Nickelodeon 1910 Story Conference.mov

http://mtmedia.mtsu.edu:8888/ebowen/Nickelodeon 1910 German Bage.mov

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