History of Moving Pictures 讲座
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Question 1
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A
To settle the bet, a photographer was asked to photograph a horse galloping and the bet was settled because you could see that all the hooves were off the ground in some of the photos.
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Question 2
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B
Now this young fellow was clever because the first thing he did was study other systems - primitive as they were - of moving pictures and then put all the existing technologies together to make the first entire motion picture system.
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Question 3
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C
The camera weighed over 200 kilograms and only one person at a time could see the film.
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Question 4
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A
Well now, news of the new system in America travelled fast and a number of rival European systems started to appear once people had heard about it.
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Question 5
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A
I guess the most famous of these was by the Lumiere Brothers from France, and they called their system the 'cinematographe' which of course is where the word cinema comes from.
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Question 6
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C
A continuing problem at the time was that the films had a tendency to break when they were being played a problem which was caused by the tension between the two wheels, or 'reels' as they are called, which hold the film.
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Question 7
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A
They developed the 'Lantham Loop', which was the simple addition of a third reel between the two main reels, and this took all the tension away with the result that the film stopped snapping.
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Question 8
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Great Train Robbery|GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY
So now there was a real possibility of having films of more than two or three minutes, and this led to the making of 'The Great Train Robbery'—the very first movie made.
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Question 9
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Sound effects|SOUND EFFECTS
I guess the next big step in terms of development of technology was to have people actually talking on the film, and the first step towards this was in 1926 when sound effects were first used on a film.
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Question 10
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poor sound quality|POOR SOUND QUALITY
Unfortunately, the sound on this early film was not very good and I believe they put subtitles on the film - that is, they printed the dialogue along the bottom of the film to compensate for this poor sound quality.