Author : Stephen Herbert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,22 MB
Release : 2023-07
Category :
ISBN : 9781032510873
Volume 1 of A History of Early Film begins with the period of technical invention. It then moves to the arrival of the first screenings in Britain. It includes an evocative selection of advertisements for the earliest films from scarce periodicals. The last section covers 1901-6 as the medium of cinema developed.
Author : Stephen Herbert
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 33,95 MB
Release : 2023-07-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1000893480
Volume 1 of A History of Early Film begins with the period of technical invention. The story of Edison's peepshow Kinetoscope, set up in arcades from April 1894, is told by W. K. L. Dickson. 'Lantern Projection of Moving Objects' heralds the arival of the first screenings in Britain, arranged by Auguste and Louis Lumière, Robert Paul and Birt Acres, announcing the new medium as a progressive development of optical moving-image toys, magic lantern projection and the Kinetoscope. It includes an evocative selection of advertisements for the earliest films and cinematographic apparatus of 1896-7. The last part of the volume covers 1901-6 as the medium of cinema developed.
Author : Stephen Herbert
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 44,67 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780415211529
First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Stephen Herbert
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,58 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Motion picture industry
ISBN : 9781003401056
Volume 1 of A History of Early Film begins with the period of technical invention. The story of Edison's peepshow Kinetoscope, set up in arcades from April 1894, is told by W. K. L. Dickson. 'Lantern Projection of Moving Objects' heralds the arival of the first screenings in Britain, arranged by Auguste and Louis Lumi©·re, Robert Paul and Birt Acres, announcing the new medium as a progressive development of optical moving-image toys, magic lantern projection and the Kinetoscope. It includes an evocative selection of advertisements for the earliest films and cinematographic apparatus of 1896-7. The last part of the volume covers 1901-6 as the medium of cinema developed.
Author : Stephen Herbert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,10 MB
Release : 2021-12-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1000560368
First published in 2004. This set of 3 volumes collects together for the first time rare and scattered material on the history of pre-cinema. It includes articles on stereoscopic photography; the use of kaleidoscopes; optical illusions; theatre design; magic lanterns and mirrors; shadow theatre, and much more. The articles are taken from sources such as The Magazine of Science, The Art Journal, The British Journal of Photography, Scientific American, American Journal of Science and Arts, and The Mirror. Volume 1 includes the areas of Camera Obscura to Chronophotography and Optical Toys and Devices Magic Mirrors.
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Page : pages
File Size : 26,8 MB
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ISBN : 9781465291271
Author : Stephen Herbert
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,18 MB
Release : 2019
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 9781000894585
Author : Stephen Herbert
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,64 MB
Release : 2023
Category : Motion picture industry
ISBN : 9781000894868
Volume 3 of A History of Early Film examines critical responses to early cinema, including the impassioned thoughts of one of the first film critics, the American poet Vachel Lindsay and considers some contemporary judgements of the social aspects of moving pictures. The volume also includes the 1917 report The Cinema: Its Present Position and Future Possibilities...which provides a unique record of the attitudes towards the cinema by its British audiences exhibitors, producers, guardians of morality and those responsible for licensing.
Author : Stephen Herbert
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 14,8 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780415211482
This set reprints together for the first time rare and essential material on the history of pre-cinema.Volume 1: Olive Cook, Movement in Two Dimensions [1963]. Volume 2 features the first facsimile reprinting of the often-overlooked "British Journal of" "Photography," Volume 3 is comprised of a selection of articles originally published between 1827-1861.
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 MB
Release : 2000
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ISBN : 9780415211536
