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“By 1893, Thomas A. Edison’s
assistant, W. K. L. Dickinson,
developed a camera that made
short 35mm films. Interested in
exploiting these films as a novelty,
Edison hoped to combine them
with his phonograph to show
sound movies.”
“Although the Lumière brothers did
not invent cinema, they largely
determined the specific form the
new medium was to take. Edison
himself was soon to abandon the
Kinetoscopes and form his own
production company to make films
for theaters.”
This quote drew my attention due to Thomas
Edison being involved in the history of early
cinema. I had never thought he was involved
in the history and that he tried to create films
with his assistant using the phonograph and
later creating the kinetoscope. This impacts
my opinion on early cinema as it shows me
that cinema back then was relevant and still
important for not only entertainment, but to
document activities and help the world.
“Later, World War I was to restrict the
free flow of films from country to
country, and Hollywood emerged as
the dominant industrial force in world
film production contributing to the
creation of distinct differences in the
formal traits of individual national
cinemas.”
This quote drew my attention as it helped see why
Hollywood is so famous for cinema. I did not know
World War I had such a big effect on the filming
world and made Hollywood what it is now. It was
intriguing how the film world still stayed in Hollywood
and how it kept its fame even after the war ended.
This impacts my opinion on early cinema as it
showed me how big of an impact World War I had
on not only people, but industries like cinema. The
cinema world is important to our culture and can
even be effected by events like war.
This quote drew my attention to the fact that these
brothers continued the work of Edison and was
able to make the technology that helped these
films come to the screen. They impacted the
cinema world and helped cinema grow to what it
is today. This impacts my opinion on cinema
because of the hard work many people went
through to create the filming technology of their
time and how because of them, we have evolved
their technology to what we have today.
12/18/22, 5:35 PM