Pre Cinema History 📷🎞️🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿さんのイラストまとめ

WAMPAS (1922-1934)
Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers began in 1921 & is self explanatory by title. Started w/ 35 'stars' and at least 13 ‘up & comers’ added annually.

Names like Mary Philbin, Colleen Moore & Eleanor Boardman.

Later known as WAMPAS Baby Stars.

Robertson was clearly the early master of the ‘Magic Lantern’ ‘Phantasmagoria’. His concept of motion-projectors precedes the concept of dollying and panning, which was born of the cinematographer in the early 20th century. -30- https://t.co/fk1sh5bx4p

‘The Miraculous Origin of Hachiman’ (Sumiyoshi 1599-1690) is an opaque watercolour, ink, and gold leaf on paper, mounted on cloth assembled into a scroll.

Its actual length is 12 7/8 in x 42 3/4ft & is housed at the @smithartmuseum, Northampton, Massachusetts. https://t.co/vCKIf9Q7Sg

Below see 4 sections of the Japanese Narrative Handscroll known as ‘The Miraculous Origin of Hachiman’ in the style of Sumiyoshi Jokei, (Sumiyoshi 1599-1690).

Like a silent film, notice the written ‘dialogue inter-titles’ in-between the visual sections of the scroll. https://t.co/k9eohJiPjs

The Pinhole Image is an absolutely amazing natural phenomenon.

1842
SIR JOHN FREDERICK WILLIAM HERSCHEL (1792-1871)
Herschel comes up with a Photographic process known as the ‘Cyanotype’. It required ferrocyanate of potassium and allowed for inexpensive but permanent prints.

Below, Herschel both young and older and two Cyanotypes.

Beale was first published November 1865 when he drew this (below) Panoramic "Base-Ball Match" illustration for ‘Harper's Weekly’.

This began his career. He was soon seen in other major national periodicals like ‘Daily Graphic’ and ‘Frank Leslie's Weekly’. Image The Henry Ford. https://t.co/07exi2Ph2X

Artists Holly Ward & Kevin Schmidt constructed a ‘Camera Obscura’ that looked like a large gold ‘nugget.’ It's placed on the old dredge piles of Dawson City, where tailings from gold mining once accumulated.

It projects onto varnished linen, the Yukon River landscape over 180˚. https://t.co/4f5l7lOiTu

Meggendorfer’s movable books were translated and sold all across Europe throughout the 19th century and eventually made their way to North America. Image Larry Seidman Collection. https://t.co/3Lf19aC4M2

These mechanical slides for a ‘Magic Lantern’ are illustrated in Petrus van Musschenbroek's ‘Beginsels Der Natuurkunde’ second edition from 1739.

These were instrumental in him achieving movement in his presentations. https://t.co/Dd5DOg9zUJ