PRESENTATION OUTLINE
The first Kinetoscope film shown in public screening and is the earliest known example of actors performing a role in a film
Edison thought movies
were a passing fad
Enter the Lumiere Brothers
The brothers invented their own device combining camera, printer and projector and called it the Cinématographe
While Edison continued to capture vaudeville and stage performers, the Lumieres took their cameras out to parks, gardens and beaches to film everyday activities or events
L'Arrivée d'un train en gare
de La Ciotat
or
Arrival of a train at La Ciotat
L'Arroseur Arrosé
or
The Waterer Watered
By 1900, the brothers projected
film on a 99 x 79 foot screen
Up to this point, most films showed only scenic places or events,
so they can be considered the earliest of documentaries
Edwin S. Porter, one of Thomas Edison's directors, created some of the first films to use the principles of narrative.
NARRATIVE
A type of filmic organization in which
the parts relate to one another through
a series of causally related events
taking place in time and space
The Life of an American Fireman
