Flashback: A Brief History of Film Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

Louis Giannetti
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 168 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Flashback: A Brief History of Film Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

Louis Giannetti
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 168 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
Buy the Flashback: A Brief History of Film Lesson Plans

Flashback: A Brief History of Film Chapters 1-4

• Eadward Muybridge photographed a horse mid-gallop to settle the debate as to whether all of a horse's feet left the ground at once.

• Jean Louis Meissonier converted these photos into silhouettes and used them to create the illusion of movement by projection through a Zoetrope.
• Thomas Edison and William Dickson developed the Kinetoscope, the first moving picture machine, which led Edison to open up a parlor to showcase the invention.

• The popularity of the Kinetoscope led to artists experimenting with special effects, acting, and story lines, leading to the creation of the Film D'Art in 1908.
• David Wark Griffith made the act of film-making political with the creation of the Patent Company.

• William Fox and Carl Laemmle led the exodus of filmmakers from New York to California in order to escape the restrictions of the Patent Company, which eventually dissolved.
• In...

(read more Chapter Abstracts)

This section contains 1,841 words
(approx. 7 pages at 300 words per page)
Buy the Flashback: A Brief History of Film Lesson Plans
Copyrights
BookRags
Flashback: A Brief History of Film from BookRags. (c)2024 BookRags, Inc. All rights reserved.