film history- The beginnings blog 1

1.  In Class, we talked about the early influences of film. Hearing that motion is an optical illusion, is so interesting.The Zoetrope toy, discussed in class with the still pictures of a horse made by Eadweard Muybridge. I remember as a kid, having a toy similar to that, with the click of a button it would turn to the next picture in a sequence. In class we also watched A Trip to The Moon. , a short film with some of the first visual effects. I thought it was a cute and creative. I liked it a lot.  The last thing we watched in class was The Birth of A Nation.  I am not into watching war movies so this one did not interest me too much.


2.I found an article that talks about Eadweard Muybridge and his aabilityto be remembered for the making of motion images, and in his lifetime he never created a film.  He was a photographer and took his photos in series to make it seem story like.  The article talks about how Muybridge's images influenced early film makers, where films were made based off of his work. 


3. In class we talked about the beginnings of film history and the early influences. The article is proof that Eadweard Muybridge was very influential to the early films with the creation of animation.

4. A Trip to the Moon, being one of the first animated films was pretty good in my opinion. I love watching animated films, and I can see how animation today has grown from that. In a Trip to the Moon, it is cheesy and playful how the moon has a face and the rocket lands in its eye. Animation still has that similar humor to it and that is what makes watching it so much fun.








Work cited:

Counterfeit Motion: The Animated Films of Eadweard Muybridge

Amy Lawrence

Film Quarterly, Vol. 57, No. 2 (Winter 2003-2004), pp. 15-25