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[[Image:The Biograph Mutoscope.jpg|thumb|right|The Mutoscope <br> | [[Image:The Biograph Mutoscope.jpg|thumb|right|The Mutoscope <br> | ||
1. Internal view, without the image cylinder 2. Internal view with the cylinder in place 3. Details of the mechanism seen from the front 4. Details of the mechanism seen from behind <br> | 1. Internal view, without the image cylinder 2. Internal view with the cylinder in place 3. Details of the mechanism seen from the front 4. Details of the mechanism seen from behind <br> | ||
The Biograph Mutoscope (Museum of Modern Art/Film Stills Archive) (Kardish 21) .]] | The Biograph Mutoscope (Museum of Modern Art/Film Stills Archive) (Kardish 21) .]] | ||
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==Spectatorship== | ==Spectatorship== | ||
===Arcades: Viewing Alone, Together=== | ===Arcades: Viewing Alone, Together=== |
Revision as of 21:50, 28 March 2010
Contents
Technology
Moving pictures vs Moving Images
Hand Crank vs Electric Motor
Circularity vs Linearity
Spectatorship
Arcades: Viewing Alone, Together
“Early cinema audiences were often an unruly bunch, drawn to nickelodeons and Kinetoscope parlors through the lure of sensation alone. “(Dixon & Foster 11)
Scopic Pleasure: Erotic Viewing
References
Adair, Gilbert. Flickers : An Illustrated Celebration of 100 Years of Cinema. Boston: Faber and Faber, 1995. Print.
Brown, Richard. A Victorian Film Enterprise : The History of the British Mutoscope and Biograph Company, 1897-1915.Print.
Casler, Herman. Mutoscope. Patent 683,910. 8 Oct 1901. Web. 27 Mar 2010.
Dixon, Wheeler W. and Foster, Gwendolyn Audrey. A Short History of Film. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2008. Print.
Gunning, Tom. "Machines That Give Birth to Images: Douglas Crockwell." Lovers of Cinema: The First American Film Avant-Garde 1919-1945. Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. Print.
Herbert, Stephen. A History of Early Film Volume 1. New York: Routledge, 2000. Print.
The Illustrated History of the Cinema. Ed. Lloyd, Ann and Robinson, David. Orbis Book Publishing Corporation Ltd. and Macmillan Publishing Company., 1986. Print.
Kardish, Laurence. Real Plastic Magic: A History of Films and Filmmaking in America. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1972. Print.
Keim, Norman O. with Marc, David. Our Movie Houses: A History of Film & Cinematic Innovation in Central New York. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 2008. Print.