Jan 17, 2013
WELCOME INTO THE WORLD OF FILMEssential Films - Chapter I | Dickson Greeting | William K.L. Dickson | There are multiple debates concerning the origins of film. Photographers in the nineteenth century were anxious to find a way to capture movement, almost from the moment they discovered the art of photography. It took less than half a century, and by the 1870s Edward Muybridge has already made significant advances, managing with the use of the zoopraxiscope to exhibit successfully a series of moving images. Muybridge was a scientist, so for him the experiments did not serve an artistic purpose. That is why, despite their historical importance in the development of technology, his pieces are rather foreign to film as we understand it. |
| 1891
WILLIAM K.L. DICKSONDirector | Producer | Cinematographer | Actor | Born in France of Anglo-Scottish descent, William Kennedy Laurie Dickson can easily be considered the most important individual in the history of motion pictures. His pivotal role in the development of the craft can be exemplified by just a few achievements: he made the first camera to record moving images that went into industrial production. |
BEST DEBUT - 1880Top 1 | 1880 Eadweard Muybridge tops the list of best debuts in film of 1880 for Sallie Gardner at a Gallop. |
| 1860-1935
