The photoplay; a psychological study (1916)

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Title:
The photoplay; a psychological study
Date:
1916
Publisher:
New York [etc.] D. Appleton and company
Volume:
The photoplay; a psychological study
Leaf #:
00019
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Cornell University Library
Sponsor:
MSN
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
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Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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THE PHOTOPLAY stages. This was secured in the early seven- ties, but to make this progress possible the whole wonderful unfolding of the photogra- pher's art was needed, from the early da- guerreotype, which presupposed hours of ex- posure, to the instantaneous photograph which fixes the picture of the outer world in a small fraction of a second. We are not con- cerned here with this technical advance, with the perfection of the sensitive surface of the photographic plate. In 1872 the photograph- er's camera had reached a stage at which it was possible to take snapshot pictures. But this alone would not have allowed the photo- graphing of a real movement with one camera, as the plates could not have been exchanged quickly enough to catch the va- rious phases of a short motion. Here the work of Muybridge sets in. He had a black horse trot or gallop or walk be- fore a white wall, passing twenty-four cam- eras. On the path of the horse were twenty- four threads which the horse broke one after another and each one released the spring which opened the shutter of an instrument. The movement of the horse was thus an- alyzed into twenty-four pictures of successive 10