Cinema Technology

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This paper details the history of the film industry, including its founders, Eadwaerd Muybridge, inventor of the Zoopraxiscope and Etienne-Jules Marey, the inventor of chronophotography. It further describes the Kinetoscope Parlors, where movies were first exhibited commercially. The paper researches the 'Golden Age' of cinema in Hollywood, starting from the introduction of sound to movies and the use of the movie studio. The paper concludes with an examination of modern-day technologies, such as cell animation, claymation, scale modeling, and the use of computer generated images for special effects.

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"This was, in fact, the world's first 'movie machine', in which a series of images could be projected on to a screen made for the purpose. In 1879, Eadwaerd Muynaird, not to be outdone, invented his own 'Zoopraxiscope', which would be able to display his 'stop action' strips of photographs. This turned out to be a primitive motion picture projection machine, which would be able to recreate movement by projecting images in an extremely rapid fashion, onto a screen. The pictures would be printed on a rotating glass disc."

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