Motion Graphics by Samantha Watson

MOTION GRAPHICS

by Sam Watson

Overview “The Origin of Intent” - Prehistory and Antiquity “The Birth of Cinema” - The “Magic Lantern” to Latham Loop “And then there was sound!” - “Talkies” “But what about us?” - Saul Bass and Pablo Ferro The End - Q & A and article discussion

“The Origin of Intent”

Prehistory and Antiquity 121 B.C. 3000-2000 B.C. Before 10000 B.C.

http://precinemahistory.net/900.htm

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(Ceram 27)

“The Birth of Cinema”

The â&#x20AC;&#x153;Magic Lanternâ&#x20AC;? The Inventor

Name: Father Athanasius Kircher b.1602 - d.1680 Occupation: Jesuit Priest Nationality: German Other: Author of Ars Magna Lucis et Umbrae (1646)

Oldest existing Magic Lantern Made in 1720 by Dutch instrument maker Jan van Musschenbroek

http://www.equisetites.de/kircher/kircher.gif http://www.luikerwaal.com/newframe_ uk.htm?/wonder1_uk.htm

Eidophusikon The Inventor

Name: Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg b.1740 - d.1812 Occupation: Artist Nationality: English (orignally French) Other: Paintings of naval battles

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/Philippe_ Jacques_de_Loutherbourg_by_Philippe_Jacques_de_Loutherbourg.jpg

http://www.acmi.net.au/AIC/eidophusikon.gif

Fantasmagoria The Inventor Name: E.G. Robertson b.1764 - d.1837 Occupation: Showman Nationality: Belgian Other: Patented Fantoscope.

http://www.sharonlathan.net/storage/peppers%20ghost.bmp http://www.museecinemaphoto.com/projection/Robertson.jpg

Panorama The Inventor

Name: Robert Barker b.1739 - d.1806 Occupation: Painter Nationality: English

http://www.panoramaonview.org/Robert_Barker_portrait.jpg

http://en.citizendium.org/images/thumb/9/95/Moving_panorama.jpg/600px-Moving_panorama.jpg

The Inventor

Diorama Name: Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre b.1787 - d.1851 Occupation: Artist Nationality: French Other: Invents Daguerreotype.

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http://www.midley.co.uk/diorama/Diorama_Wood_1_3_files/diorama_wood_fig_03_s. gif

The Inventor

Phenakistoscope Name: Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau b.1801 - d.1883 Occupation: Physicist Nationality: Belgian Other: Law of Stroboscopic Effect (1836)

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs246.snc4/39 616_426354286796_524836796_4526182_3860959_n.jpg

http://billdouglas.ex.ac.uk/eve/object_images/69236-2.jpg

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lantern Wheel of Lightâ&#x20AC;? The Inventor

Name: Baron Franz von Uchatius b.1811 - d.1881 Occupation: Professional Soldier Nationality: Austrian

http://www.precinemahistory.net/images/uchatius_machine_1853.gif

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The Inventor

Kinematoscope Name: Coleman Sellers b.1827 - d.1907 Occupation: Engineer Nationality: American

http://www.todayinsci.com/Events/Patent/Kinematoscope31357Thm.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d6/Coleman_Sellers_II.gif

The Inventor

Phasmatrope Name: Henry Reno Heyl b.18?? - d.???? Occupation: Inventor Nationality: American Other: Invented stapler.

http://www.precinemahistory.net/images/rudge_phantascope.jpg

Stop-Action Series Photography The Inventor

Name: Eadweard James Muybridge b.1830 - d.1904 Occupation: Photographer Nationality: English Other: Zoopraxiscope, Zoogryoscope

http://www.joyfulexpressions-photography-art.com/images/Muybridgehorse-in-motionChart2.jpg http://americanhistory.si.edu/muybridge/img/jpgs/i_1_03.jpg

The Inventor

Praxinscope Name: Charles-Emile Reynaud b.1844 - d.1918 Occupation: Science Teacher Nationality: French Other: ThĂŠĂ˘tre Optique, first animated film

http://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/results.asp?image=10302565&w wwflag=2&imagepos=42 http://www.victorian-cinema.net/praxinoscope.jpg

Zoopraxiscope The Inventor

Name: Eadweard James Muybridge b.1830 - d.1904 Occupation: Photographer Nationality: English Other: Stop-Action Series Photography, Zoogryoscope

http://americanhistory.si.edu/muybridge/img/jpgs/i_1_03.jpg

http://screenheritage.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/zoopraxiscope1.jpg

“Gun Camera” The Inventor

Name: Étienne-Jules Marey b.1830 - d.1904 Occupation: Scientist Nationality: French Other: Chronophotography

http://www.stephenherbert.co.uk/mPhiladExhib.gif

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Tachyscope The Inventor

Name: Ottomar Ansch端tz b.1846 - d.1907 Occupation: Photographer Nationality: German Other: Goerz/Ansch端tz Camera, Electrotachyscope

http://www.victorian-cinema.net/tachyscope.jpg http://www.lilienthal-museum.de/olma/documents/ansch.jpg

The Inventor

Electrotachyscope Name: Ottomar Ansch端tz b.1846 - d.1907 Occupation: Photographer Nationality: German Other: Goerz/Ansch端tz Camera, Tachyscope

http://www.victorian-cinema.net/electricalschnellseher.jpg http://www.lilienthal-museum.de/olma/documents/ansch.jpg

Théâtre Optique The Inventor

Name: Charles-Emile Reynaud b.1844 - d.1918 Occupation: Science Teacher Nationality: French Other: Praxinscope, first animated film

http://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/results.asp?image=10302565&w wwflag=2&imagepos=42

http://www.victorian-cinema.net/theatreoptique.jpg

LPCC 16-lens Camera The Inventor

Name: Louis AimĂŠ Augustin Le Prince b.1841 - d.1890 Occupation: Chemist, Engineer Nationality: French Other: Earliest extant film strip

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_37ImAbEFvLU/SBXrHhxe0WI/ AAAAAAAAANQ/0uWJUzzFOwk/s320/LePrince.jpg

http://www.victorian-cinema.net/theatreoptique.jpg

Kinetograph & Kinetoscope The Inventor

Name: William Kennedy Laurie Dickson b.1860 - d.1935 Occupation: Inventor Nationality: British Other: First film director.

http://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/results.asp?image=10302565&w wwflag=2&imagepos=42

http://education.eastmanhouse .org/discover/kits/images/7/ EDDK70000026.jpg

Mutoscope

The Inventor

Name: Herman Casler b.1867 - d.1939 Occupation: Inventor Nationality: American

http://www.victorian-cinema.net/mutoscope.jpg http://www.tvdays.com/images/moustaches_big.jpg

The Inventor

â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Black Mariaâ&#x20AC;? Name: Thomas Alva Edison b.1847 - d.1931 Occupation: Inventor Nationality: American Other: Phonograph, lightbulb...

http://www.electronicsandyou.com/electronics-history/Thomas%20Alva%20Edison.jpg http://www.electronicsandyou.com/electronics-history/Thomas%20 Alva%20Edison.jpg

The Inventor

Phantoscope Name: Charles Francis Jenkins b.1867 - d.1934 Occupation: Inventor Nationality: American Other: Television

http://americanhistory.si.edu/cinema/ph047.gif http://www.arqhys.com/construcciones/imagenes/ Charles%20Francis%20Jenkins.jpg

Cinematographe The Inventors Name: Louis LumiĂ¨re b.1864 - d.1948 Occupation: Filmmaker Nationality: French Name: Auguste LumiĂ¨re b.1862 - d.1954 Occupation: Filmmaker Nationality: French http://sechtl-vosecek.ucw.cz/en/images/autochromy/big/lumieri-naceduli.jpg

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=phantascope&go=&f orm=QBIR&qs=n&sk=&sc=1-11#focal=1dd72be832080698 e2ee4a92a256197d&furl=http%3A%2F%2Famericanhistory. si.edu%2Fcinema%2Fph046.gif

Latham Loop The Inventor

Name: Woodville Latham b.1837 - d.1911 Occupation: Chemistry Professor Nationality: American

http://www.victorian-cinema.net/woodville.jpg http://www.acmi.net.au/AIC/LATHAM_LOOP.GIF

“And then there was sound!”

“Talkies” Some Background

The First

The Jazz Singer 1927 Warner Bros.

http://themave.com/bijou/20/ads/ad-jazzsinger.jpg

Singin’ in the Rain 1952 MGM

http://www.impawards.com/1952/posters/singin_in_the_ rain.jpg

“But what about us?”

Saul Bass The Graphic Designer

Example

b.1920 - d.1996 Nationality: American

http://www.filmreference.com/images/sjff_04_img1434.jpg

http://www.impawards.com/1959/posters/anatomy_of_a_murder_ver2.jpg

Pablo Ferro The Graphic Designer

Example

b.1935 Nationality: Cuban-American

http://www.filmreference.com/images/sjff_04_img1434.jpg

http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/31/b70-

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Singin’ in the Rain. Dir. Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen. Perf. Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen, and Millard Mitchell. MGM, 1952.

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