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Cinematography in the 1930s Introduction Cinema

Cinematography refers to the process in film of lighting a shot and achieving quality in the visual images that are captured (Giannetti and Eyman, 2001). The cinematographer in any film is also known as the director of photography and may be either an artist or a technician. It is this individual who is responsible for ensuring that the images appearing on screen are presented to reflect the mood, ambience, and style seen by the filmÆs director, producer, and writer as essential to conveying its meaning. The director of photography (DP) works closely with the director and interprets the action of the story in terms of light, shade, composition, and camera movement. Other responsibilities include selecting the type of lens to be used for a shot, which influences the appearance of the image, and determining the cameraÆs position and angle. The DP rarely operates the camera directly; this function usually falls to a camera operator.

It is the purpose of this report to examine cinematography in 1930s Hollywood cinema and to identify the dramatic changes occurring in that era which literally, according to Dimendberg (2003), changed the very nature of the film industry.

Early experiences in motion picture technology included Eadward MuybridgeÆs sequential still photographs of horses jumping around 1877, followed by 1895Æs kinetoscope developed by Thomas Edison as a continuous loop of film that passed over a series of rollers and in front of a lens (Giannetti & Eyman, 20010. Later still, new technologies such as the Vitascope and inventions by the French team of Louis and Auguste Lumiere set a new standard for film.

Cinematography as a field of specialization can be traced to the turn of the 19th century:

December 28th 1895 can be considered the birthday of projected film presented in a theater. It was then that Antoine LumiTre from Lyon, the director of a plant producing film materials and the father of August and ...

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