A pictorial history of the movies (1943)

Record Details:

Title:
A pictorial history of the movies
Date:
1943
Publisher:
New York : Simon and Schuster
Volume:
A pictorial history of the movies
Leaf #:
00016
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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BIRTH AND INFANCY Motion Has Its Picture Taken. During the 1870's Eadweard Muybridge, visiting Lcland Stanford's California ranch, erected a battery of twenty-four cameras along Stanford's private race track. A thread stretching across the track at various intervals was attached to each shutter. As a horse ran past the cameras, he broke the threads, therebv photographing the successive phases of his action. For the first time in history, continuous motion was photographically analyzed. Later, Muybridge made similar series of pictures, using multiple shutters on one large plate camera ( film had not vet been invented ) . The picture above is one of the many experiments he conducted for Columbia University in 1875 showing figures in motion. BELOW LEFT Muybridge published two books of his pictures, later entitled Animals in Motion and The Human Figure in Motion, and for years these were source books for artists and illustrators. Here he is, shaking hands with one of his models. BELOW RIGHT The First Movie Film. W. K. L. Dickson (figure with hand on the horse) produced this film— the "first" has been disputed— and Thomas A. Edison shot it on a film base provided by George ( "Kodak" ) Eastman. The year was 1889.