Tuesday, 7 October 2014

Notes & Research

Eadweard Muybridge 
Born: April 9th, 1830 - Kingston upon Thames
Died: May 8th, 1904 - Kingston upon Thames

He was an English photographer, very important for his pioneering work in photographic motion.

In England he took up professional photography, learning the wet plate collodion.

He was hired by a business man named Leland Stanford, race horse owner and also the former governor of California in 1872 for some photographic studies.

He had taken position and studied on a popular debate whether all four feet on a horse leave the ground, at the same time when its running.





Stanford also wanted a study of the horse gallop, Muybridge planned to take a series of photos on the 15th June, 1878 at Stanford's Palo Alto Stock Farm, which is now the campus of Stanford University. He placed numerous amounts of glass-plate cameras along the edge of the race track, each shutter was triggered by a thread as the horse passed.




Thomas Edison
  1. Born: February 11, 1847, Milan, Ohio, United States
  2. Died: October 18, 1931, West Orange, New Jersey, United States

  3. Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman.
  4. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb.

Dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park"


He had a widespread impact of his inventions, : electric light and power utilities, sound recording, and motion pictures all established major new industries world-wide.


Edison's major innovation was the first industrial research lab, which was built in Menlo Park, a part of Raritan Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey (today named Edison in his honor).

Photograph of Edison with his phonograph (2nd model), taken in Mathew Brady's Washington, DC studio in April 1878.









Steenbeck
Steenbeck is a brand name that has become synonymous with a type of flatbed film editing suite which is usable with both 16 mm and 35 mm optical sound and magnetic sound film.

Despite the move away from physical film stock – much editing is now based on digital media. 

Iwan Serrier

Moviola

Lummiere Brothers

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