Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Development of Film in 1880’s

The pictures were publicized at a variable speed of about 5 to 10 pictures per second depending on how rapidly the crank was turned. A number of of these machines were coin operated. By the 1880s, the development of the motion picture camera allowed the individual constituent images to be captured and stored on a single reel, and led quickly to the development of a motion picture projector to be skilled at light through the processed and printed film and magnify these "moving picture shows" onto a screen for an entire audience. These reels, so exhibited, came to be called as "motion pictures." Early motion cinema were static shots that showed an event or action with no editing or other cinematic techniques.

Motion pictures were purely visual art up to the late 19th century, but these inventive silent films had gained a hold on the public imagination. Around the turn of the twentieth century, films began developing a description structure by stringing scenes together to tell narratives. The scenes were later broken up into various shots of varying sizes and angles. Other techniques such as camera movement were realized as effective ways to portray a story on film. Rather than leave the audience in silence, theater owners would hire a pianist or organist or a full rock band to play music fitting the mood of the film at any given moment. By the early 1920s, most films came with a organized list of sheet music for this purpose, with complete film scores being composed for major productions.

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