Video 1A

Film History

From Still Photographs to Moving Pictures

15 Points Possible

Directions: Read each of the following web pages and write the answer to each question on a sheet of binder paper. Make sure your name, period and date is printed at the top of the paper.

Animated Toys

Question #1

What is the phi phenomena?

http://www.ex.ac.uk/bdc/young_bdc/animation/animation1.htm

Question #2

Thaumatrope is a Greek word that means what?

http://www.ex.ac.uk/bdc/young_bdc/animation/animation2.htm

Question #3

How did the phenakistiscope work?

http://www.ex.ac.uk/bdc/young_bdc/animation/animation3.htm

Question #4

What was cut into the sides of the Zoetrop?

http://www.ex.ac.uk/bdc/young_bdc/animation/animation4.htm

Question #5

What did the praxinoscope use for a light source?

http://www.ex.ac.uk/bdc/young_bdc/animation/animation5.htm

From Still Pictures to Moving Pictures

The invention of photography page 1

http://www.ex.ac.uk/bdc/young_bdc/movingpics/movingpics1.htm

(No question for this page)

The Invention of Photography page 2

http://www.ex.ac.uk/bdc/young_bdc/movingpics/movingpics2.htm

Question #6: The first commercial photography process was developed by Daguerre. What was the name of this process? ____________________________

Negatives and Positives page 3

http://www.ex.ac.uk/bdc/young_bdc/movingpics/movingpics3.htm

Question #7: What were the benefits of a Talbot’s gelatin based coating?

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Eadweard Muybridge page 4

http://www.ex.ac.uk/bdc/young_bdc/movingpics/movingpics4.htm

Question #8: Who was Muybridge working for in 1878? ______________

Also…

Question #9: What was the name of the machine developed by Muybridge and what did it do? ___________________________________

Muybridge’s Chronophotographs page 5

http://www.ex.ac.uk/bdc/young_bdc/movingpics/movingpics5.htm

Question #10: What was the name of the horse Muybridge photographed? _____

Etienne Jules Marey page 6

http://www.ex.ac.uk/bdc/young_bdc/movingpics/movingpics6.htm

Question #11: To photograph the flight of birds, what did Marey invent and what did this device do?

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George Eastman and Celluloid Film page 7

http://www.ex.ac.uk/bdc/young_bdc/movingpics/movingpics7.htm

Question #12: What innovation did the Kodak camera feature and what year was it invented?

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Moving Pictures Pioneers page 8

http://www.ex.ac.uk/bdc/young_bdc/movingpics/movingpics8.htm

Question #13: What happened to Le Prince?

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Thomas Alva Edison page 9

http://www.ex.ac.uk/bdc/young_bdc/movingpics/movingpics9.htm

Question #14: Where and in what year did Edison exhibit his first films?

The Lumiere Brothers page 10

http://www.ex.ac.uk/bdc/young_bdc/movingpics/movingpics10.htm

Question #15: Which date is often marked as the birth of cinema?

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DONE