A clicking machine, like a human hurricane

America’s First Movie Studio – the Black Maria

The newly developed features of the studio that was covered in black tarpaper, were a roof that could be opened to admit sunlight for illumination, and the building itself was mounted on a revolving pivot so that the structure could be constantly repositioned to keep it aligned with the sun, which by the time the best available source of lighting and because early films required a tremendous amount of bright light. Although the first produced movies were rather short, they were of course subject to copyright. The first motion pictures shot in the Black Maria were deposited for copyright by W. K. L. Dickson at the Library of Congress in August 1893. The earliest copyrighted film that still survives is Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze, January 7, 1894, also known as Fred Ott’s Sneeze, which records Fred Ott, an Edison employee, sneezing comically for the camera.

http://scihi.org/edisons-black-maria/

Edison and Black Maria Studio 1893

https://youtu.be/9MZjjMeDOCc

"A clicking machine, like a human hurricane."



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Georges Méliès is famous for his many innovations in motion pictures. He was one of the first to film fictional narratives, and he is regarded as the inventor of special effects in movies. His films were among the first to use such techniques as double exposure, stop-motion, and slow motion.

Since the camera was usually stationary in Victorian films, phantom rides presented a dynamic new style of filmmaking. Although it was the speed, motion and unique perspective that were the main pleasures of the phantom ride, the films' exotic subjects offered up another thrill for audiences. Early British phantom rides were filmed along local tracks, but filmmakers soon became more ambitious and British cameramen were sent all around the world to film rides through foreign lands. In the same way, filmmakers came from overseas to Britain to record and share the landscape of the UK.

https://www.intofilm.org/news-and-views/...ntom-rides

"A clicking machine, like a human hurricane."

Since the camera was usually stationary in Victorian films, phantom rides presented a dynamic new style of filmmaking. Although it was the speed, motion and unique perspective that were the main pleasures of the phantom ride, the films' exotic subjects offered up another thrill for audiences. Early British phantom rides were filmed along local tracks, but filmmakers soon became more ambitious and British cameramen were sent all around the world to film rides through foreign lands. In the same way, filmmakers came from overseas to Britain to record and share the landscape of the UK.

https://www.intofilm.org/news-and-views/...ntom-rides

Still use the basic techniques today! lol

George Albert Smith (4 January 1864 – 17 May 1959) was an English stage hypnotist, psychic, magic lantern lecturer, Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, inventor and a key member of the loose association of early film pioneers dubbed the Brighton School by French film historian Georges Sadoul. He is best known for his controversial work with Edmund Gurney at the Society for Psychical Research, his short films from 1897 to 1903, which pioneered film editing and close-ups, and his development of the first successful colour film process, Kinemacolor.[1][2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Alb...filmmaker)

first close up - George Albert Smith 1901

https://youtu.be/FMDBFnlwr9M

First wide screen 63 mm nitrate film used.
Enoch J. Rector

The film was also the first to be shot in widescreen, with an aspect ratio of about 1.65:1. It was the first motion picture to ever depict the championship prizefight and the film of the fight produced more income in box office than in live gate receipts, it was immensely profitable and the picture served as a long-standing model for future amusement entrepreneurs. Prizefighting was illegal in 21 states and many cities and states tried to ban the film, but their efforts were mostly unsuccessful.

In 2012, the film was added to the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress as a "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant film".
https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.or...film-strip

"A clicking machine, like a human hurricane."

 

clicking machines?! lol