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Phantom Ride
Phantom rides or panoramas were an early genre of film popular in Britain and the US at the end of the 19th century. Pre-dating true narrative, the films simply show the progress of a vehicle moving forwards, usually shot by strapping a cameraman to the front. The term ''phantom ride'' was applied because the position of the camera meant that only the track and scenery could be seen and the movement appeared to be coming from an invisible force. Though many early films showed local tracks the demand for new footage led to more exotic locations being filmed. This brought a new dimension to the genre, showing foreign lands to those who would otherwise never see them. The genre is also significant, despite its short-lived popularity, due to the role it played in the development of the tracking shot, longer films and film editing,Hayes, Christian.Phantom Rides BFI Screen Online. Retrieved 30 August 2011. as well as its re-emergence in 4D film and simulation. History Most films bef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Genre
A film genre is a Genre, stylistic or thematic category for Film, motion pictures based on similarities either in the narrative , narrative elements, aesthetic approach, or the emotional response to the film. Drawing heavily from the theories of literary genre, literary-genre Literary criticism, criticism, film genres are usually delineated by "conventions, iconography, Setting (narrative), settings, Narrative film, narratives, stock character, characters and actors". One can also classify films by the Tone (literature), tone, Theme (narrative), theme/topic, Mood (literature), mood, film format, format, target audience, or Film budgeting, budget. Hayward, Susan. "Genre/Sub-genre" in ''Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts'' (Third Edition). Routledge, 2006. p. 185–192 These characteristics are most evident in Genre fiction, genre films, which are "commercial feature films [that], through repetition and variation, tell familiar stories with familiar characters and familiar situat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lumière Brothers
Lumière is French for 'light'. Lumiere, Lumière or Lumieres may refer to: Buildings * Lumière, a building used by the Bibliothèque publique d'information in Paris, France * Lumiere (skyscraper), a cancelled skyscraper development in Leeds, England * Palais Lumière, cancelled skyscraper in Venice by Pierre Cardin Film and TV Awards and festivals * Lumière Awards, an annual French film awards ceremony * The Lumiere Awards, an annual film awards presented by the Advanced Imaging Society * Lumière Festival, a film festival in Lyon, France ** Lumière Award (film festival award), an award presented at the Lumière Festival Other uses in film and TV * Institut Lumière, a French organization for the preservation of French cinema * Lumière, a List of Disney's Beauty and the Beast characters#Lumi.C3.A8re, character in Disney's ''Beauty and the Beast'' * Lumiere (database), an online database of admission numbers for films released in Europe * Lumière (film), ''Lumière'' (film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
4-D Film
4D or 4-D primarily refers to: * 4-dimensional spacetime: three-dimensional space of length, width, and height, plus time * Four-dimensional space It may also refer to: Computers and photography * 4D (software), a complete programming environment including database and web server ** 4D SAS, developers of 4D and Wakanda ** 4D Inc, a US-based subsidiary of 4D SAS * 4D BIM, a term used in computer aided design * 4D printing * Cinema 4D, a commercial cross platform 3D graphics application * SGI IRIS 4D, a line of workstations from Silicon Graphics * 4D, a Photo print sizes#, photo print size for digital cameras Arts and entertainment * 4D (album), ''4D'' (album), a 2010 album by Matthew Shipp * 4-D (The X-Files), "4-D" (''The X-Files''), an episode of ''The X-Files'' * 4D Audio Recording system, an audio recording system developed by Deutsche Grammophon * 4D film, a high technology film experience augmented with physical or environmental effects * 4DTV, a satellite TV broadcasting t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hale's Tours Of The World
''Hale's Tours of the World '' were an attraction at amusement parks and similar venues in the early 20th century. They were specially constructed spaces designed to simulate a railway journey. Creation George C. Hale was born on October 28, 1849. He was a well travelled and prolific inventor, engineer and Fire Chief of Kansas City, Missouri from 1882 until retiring in 1902. Interested in the use of film, Hale came across William Keefe who had conceived the idea of an imitation railway passenger car on a circular platform that would remain motionless as a panorama of images would revolve around the "passengers" to simulate the experience of a railway journey. "Realism" would be increased with staff providing a rocking motion, a wind machine and sound effects. Lacking the financial capital, Fell teamed with Judge Fred Gifford who introduced Fell to Hale who had possibly viewed the phantom ride Phantom rides or panoramas were an early genre of film popular in Britain and the US ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecil Hepworth
Cecil Milton Hepworth (19 March 1874 – 9 February 1953) was a British film director, film producer, producer and screenwriter. He was among the founders of the Cinema of the United Kingdom, British film industry and continued making films into the 1920s at his Hepworth Studios. In 1923 his company Hepworth Pictures, Hepworth Picture Plays went into receivership. His works include ''Alice in Wonderland (1903 film), Alice in Wonderland'' (1903), the first film adaptation of Lewis Carroll's children's book ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland''. History Hepworth was born in Lambeth, in present-day South London. His father, Thomas Cradock Hepworth, was a famous magic lantern showman and author. Cecil Hepworth became involved in the early stages of British filmmaking, working for both Birt Acres and Charles Urban, and wrote the first British book on the subject in 1897. With his cousin Monty Wicks he set up the production company Hepworth and Co. (also known as "Hepwix" afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Albert Smith (inventor)
George Albert Smith (4 January 1864 – 17 May 1959) was an English stage hypnosis, hypnotist, psychic, magic lantern lecturer, Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, inventor and a key member of the loose association of early film pioneers dubbed the Brighton School (film pioneers), Brighton School by French film historian Georges Sadoul. He is best known for his controversial work with Edmund Gurney at the Society for Psychical Research, his short films from 1897 to 1903, which pioneered film editing and close-ups, and his development of the first successful colour film process, Kinemacolor. Biography Birth and early life Smith was born in Cripplegate, London in 1864. His father Charles Smith was a ticket-writer and artist.Hall (1964), p. 92. He moved with his family to Brighton, where his mother ran a boarding house on Grand Parade, following the death of his father. It was in Brighton in the early 1880s that Smith first came to public attention touring the city ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Era (newspaper)
''The Era'' was a British weekly paper, published from 1838 to 1939. Originally a general newspaper, it became noted for its sports coverage, and later for its theatrical content. History ''The Era'' was established in 1838 by a body of shareholders consisting of licensed victuallers and other people connected with their trade. The journal was intended to be a weekly organ of the public-house interest, just as the '' Morning Advertiser'' was then its daily organ. In the first two or three years of its existence, its political stance was broadly Liberal. Its first editor, Leitch Ritchie, proved too liberal for his board of directors, and in addition to editorial clashes, the paper was a commercial failure. Ritchie was succeeded by Frederick Ledger, who became sole proprietor as well as editor. He edited the paper for more than thirty years, gradually changing its politics from Liberalism to moderate Conservatism. Politics, however, ceased to be a major concern of ''The Era''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leaving Jerusalem By Railway
Leaving or Leavin' may refer to: Film, theatre and television * ''Leaving'' (TV series), a 1984–1985 UK series featuring Keith Barron and Susan Hampshire * ''Leaving'' (1997 film), a Japanese film starring Kotomi Kyono * ''Leaving'' (play), a 2007 play by Václav Havel ** ''Leaving'' (2011 film), a Czech film directed by Václav Havel and based on his play * ''Leaving'' (2009 film), a French film by Catherine Corsini * ''Leaving'', a 2012 UK television series featuring Linzey Cocker * ''The Leaving'', a 2018 Philippine animated film * "Leaving" (''Watching''), a 1987 television episode Music Albums * ''Leaving'' (album), a 1976 album by Richard Beirach and Jeremy Steig * ''Leavin (album), a 2006 album by Natalie Cole EP * ''Leaving'' (EP), a 2013 EP by Skrillex whose title track is "Leaving" Songs * "Leavin' " (Tony! Toni! Toné! song), 1994 * "Leaving", a 2001 song by The Starting Line from '' With Hopes of Starting Over...'' * "Leavin' " (Jesse McCa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Shore Railroad
The West Shore Railroad was a U.S. railway company active in the states of New York and New Jersey between 1885 and 1952. It was incorporated in 1885 to reorganize the New York, West Shore and Buffalo Railway, which had originally been intended as a competitor to the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad. The oldest original component of the line traced to 1866, with other lines and trackage rights acquired into the 1880s. Its main line ran from Weehawken, New Jersey, on the west bank of the Hudson River opposite New York City, north to Albany, New York, and then west to Buffalo. An effort by the powerful Pennsylvania Railroad to acquire the New York West Shore and Buffalo Railway and challenge the New York Central on its home state resulted in a turf war, settled by financier J. P. Morgan, with the NYC taking the line over in return for dropping its South Pennsylvania Railroad incursion into the heart of the Pennsylvania's territory. Within a week of being acquir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Narrative
A narrative, story, or tale is any account of a series of related events or experiences, whether non-fictional (memoir, biography, news report, documentary, travel literature, travelogue, etc.) or fictional (fairy tale, fable, legend, thriller (genre), thriller, novel, etc.). Narratives can be presented through a sequence of written or spoken words, through still or moving images, or through any combination of these. The word derives from the Latin verb ''narrare'' ("to tell"), which is derived from the adjective ''gnarus'' ("knowing or skilled"). Historically preceding the noun, the adjective "narrative" means "characterized by or relating to a story or storytelling". Narrative is expressed in all mediums of human creativity, art, and entertainment, including public speaking, speech, literature, theatre, dance, music and song, comics, journalism, animation, video (including film and television), video games, radio program, radio, game, structured and play (activity), unstructu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Haverstraw Tunnel
''The Haverstraw Tunnel'' is an early black and white silent film released in 1897 by the American Mutoscope Company. It is considered to be one of the first examples of a phantom ride (along with Alexandre Promio's ''Leaving Jerusalem by Railway'' the same year) and features a train travelling along the West Shore Railroad in Rockland County, New York Rockland County is the southernmost county on the west side of the Hudson River in the U.S. state of New York. It is part of the New York metropolitan area. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the county's population is 338,329, making it the state' ... and then through the eponymous tunnel. Reception ''The Haverstraw Tunnel'' became one of Mutoscope's most popular films. A review of the film was published in a February 1, 1898 Worcester, Massachusetts newspaper that mentioned: A review appeared in the January 22, 1898 ''Tatler'' of St. Augustine, Florida and commented on the effect the film had upon audiences at the Hotel Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Mutoscope And Biograph Company
The Biograph Company, also known as the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, was a motion picture company founded in 1895 and active until 1916. It was the first company in the United States devoted entirely to film production and exhibition, and for two decades was one of the most prolific, releasing over 3000 short films and 12 feature films. During the height of silent film as a medium, Biograph was the most prominent U.S. film studio and one of the most respected and influential studios worldwide, only rivaled by Germany's UFA, Sweden's Svensk Filmindustri and France's Pathé. The company was home to pioneering director D. W. Griffith and such actors as Mary Pickford, Lillian Gish, and Lionel Barrymore. Founding The company was started by William Kennedy Dickson, an inventor at Thomas Edison's laboratory who helped pioneer the technology of capturing moving images on film. Dickson left Edison in April 1895, joining with inventors Herman Casler, Harry Marvin and bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
