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April 21, 2024 27 mins

All the films in today's episode can be watched on YouTube


Persistence of Vision

Explained in a 1936 film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_W-kokpCkg


The Zoetrope

Milton Bradley Zoetrope 1866 (Containing images acceptable to many people back then): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG6ywByMAyE

Modern Zoetrope using 3D Printer (Contains strobe sequence): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-5AP5R6gpA

Make your own Zoetrope!: https://rimstar.org/science_electronics_projects/how-to-make-a-zoetrope.htm


Eadweard Muybridge

Horse in Motion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heRuLp7CyTM



Louis Le Prince

The Roundhay Garden Scene 1888: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAiYFEHI9o8

The Accordian Player 1888: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbJZvtUQvGI

Leeds Bridge 1888: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTlXaqG4VyE


Wordsworth Donisthorpe

Trafalgar Square 1890: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8igdG537rH8


William Friese-Greene

Friese-Greene invents cinema (He didn’t, but this is a scene from 1951’s The Magic Box which is too good not to include!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxHA9U8IHfM

Reconstruction from one of Friese-Greene’s experiments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pTOGmepivg


Thomas Edison

Edison’s earliest films from 1890 onwards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRgymD_CO8k


The Lumiere Brothers

First Films 1895: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXX32OLNnpU


Websites

Louis Le Prince's Camera: https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.26326273

The History of the Discovery of Cinematography from 900BCE to The Lumiere Brothers: http://www.precinemahistory.net/index.html

The Story of Louis Le Prince: https://www.cinemahistory.co.uk/louis-le-prince/

An excellent blog about early cinema and Friese-Greene in particular: https://friesegreene.com/


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