Monday, 14 September 2020
AFM NOTES WEEK 2
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Georges Méliès - Voyage Dans
La Lune (1902)
- Snippets of scenes allow for transition between time / space rather than just a single
location and moment in time.
- Lesson about a rocket going to the moon
- Students rage / are excited
- Students line up facing camera, change clothes
- Professor leaves, they follow
- Cut to building of the rocket
- Cut to man & people looking through telescope to smoke
- Cut to people entering the rocket & rocket being pushed onto hold by women
- Cut to women holding a flag, announcing the release of the rocket
- Cut to moon with evil face & moon being impaled with rocket
- Cut to people exiting the rocket on the moon, people see Earth from the Moon, people on
the Moon get ready to sleep, shooting starts are superimposed on film
- Men enter a crater on the moon, find mushroom land underground
- Local creators remove the Earthlings from the area and bring to Moon king
- Humans try to return to rocket when being attacked by the Moon locals
- Rocket returns to earth and lands in the ocean
- Humans that wend to the moon are rewarded by the locals
- Everyone rejoices, including a Moon person who is now on Earth
The Great Train Robbery (1903)
- Man sitting in room is held at gun-point
- The Man is tied up by the intruders
- Man is left in the room alone again
- Cut to train pulling up to a tower
- Robbers enter train (the men who tied up the man at beginning)
- Cut to inside train, man organising items inside
- Man gets sprayed and tied up by robbers
- Box is blown up and men steal a bag
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- Cut to top of the train, men fighting, one gets thrown off train
- Man Commanding train is forced to detach a wagon from the train while held at gun-
point
- Passengers in train are evacuated from the train with hands up
- Men run away with bags into the sole wagon
- Robbers are seen in a forest, find their horses
- Cut to initial scene with man tied up, woman comes in and shakes him to wake him up
- Cut to people dancing in a ball room, robbers are dancing
- Cut to robbers riding their horses in the forest while shooting guns
- Cut to robbers taking items out of the bag they stole, robbers get caught and are shot
- Cut to robber shooting at camera
LECTURE 2
- 19th Century Popular Visual Culture
• Optical toys - main form of entertainment
- E.g. Parxinoscope (mid-19th century France)
• Individual images are rotated, thus creating motion / moving images
• Photography & magic lantern slide sets
- Series photography by Muybridge - Running Horse - divided time into equal units
- Chrono=photography by Marey - creating movement using a single frame - time as a
continuous movement
• Panorama, diorama - lantern slide sets
- Projection of handprinted image on a surface reflected through the use of light
- Travel culture - reflecting important monuments of different countries
- Panorama - buildings existed in almost every city - painted 360 to recreate a space /
location
• Vaudeville Serpentine
- Film that imitated stage performances
• Lumiere cinematographe
- Films, prints, projects, uses flexible film with perforations (on the spot)
- Lumiere Brothers inventors of cinema?
• 50 seconds long
• Eye-level
• No movement
• Brothers hired people (operators) that traveled around the world and used the
device to capture footage
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AFM NOTES WEEK 2
CC9010
Georges Méliès - Voyage Dans
La Lune (1902)
- Snippets of scenes allow for transition between time / space rather than just a single
location and moment in time.
- Lesson about a rocket going to the moon
- Students rage / are excited
- Students line up facing camera, change clothes
- Professor leaves, they follow
- Cut to building of the rocket
- Cut to man & people looking through telescope to smoke
- Cut to people entering the rocket & rocket being pushed onto hold by women
- Cut to women holding a flag, announcing the release of the rocket
- Cut to moon with evil face & moon being impaled with rocket
- Cut to people exiting the rocket on the moon, people see Earth from the Moon, people on
the Moon get ready to sleep, shooting starts are superimposed on film
- Men enter a crater on the moon, find mushroom land underground
- Local creators remove the Earthlings from the area and bring to Moon king
- Humans try to return to rocket when being attacked by the Moon locals
- Rocket returns to earth and lands in the ocean
- Humans that wend to the moon are rewarded by the locals
- Everyone rejoices, including a Moon person who is now on Earth
The Great Train Robbery (1903)
- Man sitting in room is held at gun-point
- The Man is tied up by the intruders
- Man is left in the room alone again
- Cut to train pulling up to a tower
- Robbers enter train (the men who tied up the man at beginning)
- Cut to inside train, man organising items inside
- Man gets sprayed and tied up by robbers
- Box is blown up and men steal a bag
1
, Monday, 14 September 2020
- Cut to top of the train, men fighting, one gets thrown off train
- Man Commanding train is forced to detach a wagon from the train while held at gun-
point
- Passengers in train are evacuated from the train with hands up
- Men run away with bags into the sole wagon
- Robbers are seen in a forest, find their horses
- Cut to initial scene with man tied up, woman comes in and shakes him to wake him up
- Cut to people dancing in a ball room, robbers are dancing
- Cut to robbers riding their horses in the forest while shooting guns
- Cut to robbers taking items out of the bag they stole, robbers get caught and are shot
- Cut to robber shooting at camera
LECTURE 2
- 19th Century Popular Visual Culture
• Optical toys - main form of entertainment
- E.g. Parxinoscope (mid-19th century France)
• Individual images are rotated, thus creating motion / moving images
• Photography & magic lantern slide sets
- Series photography by Muybridge - Running Horse - divided time into equal units
- Chrono=photography by Marey - creating movement using a single frame - time as a
continuous movement
• Panorama, diorama - lantern slide sets
- Projection of handprinted image on a surface reflected through the use of light
- Travel culture - reflecting important monuments of different countries
- Panorama - buildings existed in almost every city - painted 360 to recreate a space /
location
• Vaudeville Serpentine
- Film that imitated stage performances
• Lumiere cinematographe
- Films, prints, projects, uses flexible film with perforations (on the spot)
- Lumiere Brothers inventors of cinema?
• 50 seconds long
• Eye-level
• No movement
• Brothers hired people (operators) that traveled around the world and used the
device to capture footage
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