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than the other. I was working as a projection and sound technician for a major cinema exhibitor during this shift, so I have some insight into the similarities and differences in the two technologies. Though I enjoy servicing film projectors more than digital projectors and I have nostalgic feelings about analogue film in general, it is clear that the digital projection platform is far more versatile and has more potential for being improved even further in the future. Digital and film projection

drown out the noises the projector made during viewing. In the early days, this musical coverage was provided by an in-house musician; then it later evolved into entire orchestras. In both accompaniments, the musician or musicians would be provided with cue sheets that served as a story map or guide to played along with the film while it was being shown. In almost all instances, the music consisted of recognizable pieces by famous composers. As the technology of projectors and filming equipment advanced

By 1957, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman had already established himself in the industry with films like The Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries. These films served as a foundation for his work that would only go deeper into the exploration of the meaning of art film. After being hospitalized for a long period of time, Bergman started writing a new film, which would eventually be his 1966 Persona. Persona serves as Bergman’s first film that delved deeper into the process of exposing cinema in a self-reflexive

Man with a Movie Camera, directed by Dziga Vertov and edited by his wife Elizaveta Svilova, is an experimental film released in 1929 after having been filmed over a period of three years in urban U.S.S.R and is considered by some to be both a documentary and avant-garde cinema (Aitken, 2011, p. 602). The film was shot in the Soviet cities of Kiev, Moscow and Odessa (Nytimes.com, 2015). Unlike Hollywood and the growing trends of Russian silent Cinema at the time, Vertov chose not use actors, theatrical

A Spectrum Through Time; The Museum of Moving Image Museum of the Moving Image is the country's only museum dedicated to the art, history, technique, and technology of the moving image in all its forms. It is one-of-a-kind destination for audiences of all ages and interests, from connoisseurs of classic cinema to children and families to avid gamers. The Museum is located the state of New York in Astoria Queens and has a collection of approximately 130,000 artifacts relating to the art, history

PART I – IDENTIFICATIONS: SUBSECTION A: i. Eadweard Muybridge: The story of the American motion picture industry begins with the eccentric ‘photographic artist’, Eadweard Muybridge. In 1872, Eadweard Muybridge was sought out by former governor of California and railroad tycoon, Leland Stanford, because of his expertise with the camera. Stanford thought that if Muybridge could capture equine motion in a series of photographs, it would be possible to discern whether or not all four of a horse’s

The History of film has been influenced by the discovery and testing of paradoxes intrinsic in the medium itself. machines are used record images of anything; it combines still photographs to give the appearance of continuous motion; it seems to present life itself, but it also offers unthinkable unrealities approached only in dreams. The motion picture was unfolded in the 1890s from the union of still photography, which records actual reality, with the persistence-of-vision toy, which made drawn

Chaplin: Film Revolutionary A revolutionary idea are certain movements that change life as we know it entirely, take for example the revolutionary idea of a film. There would be no film if it were not for it’s forefathers such as photography, pictures drawn on caves, yet still dating back to the time of story telling. None of these outstanding ideas would be able to be born without the humans that set off these chains of events. An important influence in Film is 1920’s celebrity, Charlie Chaplin

Zozo by Josef Farez, is a good example of a Swedish/immigrant movie that has become a popular theme amongst Swedish movies since the increase of immigrants and refugees coming to Sweden. However, what this particular film did that most Swedish/immigrant films don’t is show how both Swedes and immigrants affect each other, and how conflict comes from both sides. Zozo brings up how the best way to avoid starting these conflicts is for immigrants to try to let go of their fear and anger left from when

The General Buster Keaton wrote, directed, and acted in the film The General (1926). The silent film is a chase comedy enriched by realism. Siegfried Kracauer states that film represents reality as it evolves in time with the aid of cinematic techniques and devices. Film literally photographs reality to record and reveal physical reality. Physical reality being called material reality, physical existence, actuality, and simply nature. The movement in the film The General emphasizes the motion of