Louis LumiTre, hosted in the Grand CafT of Paris a show of living pictures. It was shot by cameras that his sons had developed, and presented with projectors they had constructed. It was the first time the term 'cinTmatographe' was used, formed of the Greek words 'kinTma' (movement) and 'graphein' (to write, to draw, to inscribe). Among those invited was also the director of the Houdini Theater, the master illusionist Georges MTliFs (History of Cinematography, 2003).
á According to Giannetti and Eyman (2001, p. 11), ôthe motion picture was an invention with many inventors.ö Early films were relatively brief and it was not until 1903 when Edwin S. Porter created The Great Train Robbery that movies became longer and special effects such as matte shots of a train passing as seen through a stationhouse window along with various distance shots appeared. The nickelodeon, the works of D.W. Griffith, and new methods of editing, filming, lighting, and employing realistic exterior and interior shots and new frame sizes changed the ways in which films were made (Giannetti & Eyman, 2001).
Throughout the 1920s, the increasing complexity of motion pictures and the diversity of films and cinematic subjects were balanced by new technologies including that of the ôtalkie.ö The advent of the talkie introduced sound as a new element in the cinema, making film the most expensive artistic medium in history (Giannetti & Eyman, 2001).
Dimendberg (2003) contends that the films of the 1930s that were produced in Hollywood represent a technical virtuosity and even a sometimes opulent splendor. Essential to the development of new images and new styles in film were new lighting technologies, new lenses of a revolutionary nature, and the resulting ability of cinematographers to use technology to heighten mood and create environments that represented and even exceeded real life.
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