Pre-Cinema:
http://web.inter.nl.net/users/anima/pre-cinema/index.htm

Optical Toys: http://web.inter.nl.net/users/anima/optical/zoopraxi/index.htm

Chrono-photographical projections:
http://web.inter.nl.net/users/anima/chronoph/index.htm

Muybridge and The Controversy of the Moving Horse" in 1872
http://web.inter.nl.net/users/anima/chronoph/muybridge/index.htm

WEEK 5 -- FEB 18

The Beginning of Motion Pictures: Film Types and History

6:00-6:30 SCREENING: Segments of Film Before Film (30 min.) and Cousteau - Pioneer of the Sea (99 min.)

6:30-7:30 E. Pullins, Film Technology: Early Years

Wildlife Science Research Films, Part I
Introduction to the history of film about nature and wildlife (Etienne Jules Marey , Eadweard Muybridge, Jean Painlevé, etc.)

7:40-8:00: ACTIVITY: Making optical toys

See the thaumatropes that we made in class!

8:00-8:30: ACTIVITY: Discussion about Jean Painlevé based on your homework questions. Click here to see the instructors notes for that discussion.

READING FOR FEB 25: Chap. 3, Film Terms and Topics, In A Short Guide to Writing About Film, T. Corrigan, pp. 33-72.

ACTIVITY DUE FEB 25: Answer the questions provided that address issues raised in "Film Terms and Topics" in a one to three page essay.

Course notes and homework questions
(A MS Word document)