Cinema : the beginnings and the future : essays marking the centenary of the first film show projected to a paying audience in Britain / edited by Christopher Williams.

Contributor(s):

Williams, Christopher, 1939-

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: Spanish Publication details: London : University of Westminster Press, 1996.Description: 263 s. : illISBN:

1859190073
9781859190074
185919012X
9781859190128

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

791.43

LOC classification:

PN 1994 C574 1996

Contents:

Part A1 Around a Premiere. 1. Natural magic and science fiction:instruction, amusement and the popular show, 1795-1895 -- 2. The Magic Lantern's wild years -- 3. Realising the vision:300 years of cinematography -- 4. Premiere on Regent Sgtreet -- 5. Frameup -- 6. Filming scenes in the United kingdom for the Cinematographe Lumiere -- 7. Marketing the Cinematographe in Britain -- 8. Evidence of editing in the Lumiere films -- 9. Back to Lumiere, or, The Dream of an Essence: some untimely considerations about a French Myth. Part 2. Early Cinema -- Then and Now. 10. the diffuse beam:cinema and change -- 11. Sport and the first films -- 12. The treats of trickery -- 13. The role of the intertitle in film exhibition, 1904-1910 -- 14. 'Nine Days' Wonder': early cinema and its sceptics -- 15. The attractions of cinema, or, how I l learned to start worrying about loving early film -- 16. Re-creating the first film shows. Part 3. Towards the Future. 17. Cut and shuffle -- 18. Little big screen -- 19. the social art cinema:a moment in the history of British Film and Television Culture -- 20. Don't cry for me when I'm gone:motion pictures in the 1990s -- 21. Read only memory:the re-creation of sensorial experience in 3D and CD-ROM -- 22. Back to the future: the cinema's lessons of history -- 23. What is cinema? the sensuous, the abstract and the political.

Summary: These essays mark the hundredth anniversary of the first projected film screening to a paying audience in Britain, by the Lumiere Cinematographe at the Polytechnic Institution in Regent Street, London, in February 1896. Contributors include David Robinson, John Barnes and Sylvia Harvey.

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Part A1 Around a Premiere. 1. Natural magic and science fiction:instruction, amusement and the popular show, 1795-1895 --
2. The Magic Lantern's wild years --
3. Realising the vision:300 years of cinematography --
4. Premiere on Regent Sgtreet --
5. Frameup --
6. Filming scenes in the United kingdom for the Cinematographe Lumiere --
7. Marketing the Cinematographe in Britain --
8. Evidence of editing in the Lumiere films --
9. Back to Lumiere, or, The Dream of an Essence: some untimely considerations about a French Myth. Part 2. Early Cinema --
Then and Now. 10. the diffuse beam:cinema and change --
11. Sport and the first films --
12. The treats of trickery --
13. The role of the intertitle in film exhibition, 1904-1910 --
14. 'Nine Days' Wonder': early cinema and its sceptics --
15. The attractions of cinema, or, how I l learned to start worrying about loving early film --
16. Re-creating the first film shows. Part 3. Towards the Future. 17. Cut and shuffle --
18. Little big screen --
19. the social art cinema:a moment in the history of British Film and Television Culture --
20. Don't cry for me when I'm gone:motion pictures in the 1990s --
21. Read only memory:the re-creation of sensorial experience in 3D and CD-ROM --
22. Back to the future: the cinema's lessons of history --
23. What is cinema? the sensuous, the abstract and the political.

These essays mark the hundredth anniversary of the first projected film screening to a paying audience in Britain, by the Lumiere Cinematographe at the Polytechnic Institution in Regent Street, London, in February 1896. Contributors include David Robinson, John Barnes and Sylvia Harvey.

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