Lumiere brothers
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- brozilla
Anyone familar with these guys?
The WWI pics thread got me thinking about them.
I know they gave birth to cinematography, but were they the first to use narrative as a means of storytelling in movies?
I remember seeing a short film that, I think was done by them, in which a baby takes a step off a curb to fetch a ball...essentially the birth of the three-act structure.
Anyone know what I am talking about or where I can find this short?
- Bitlounge0
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- brozilla0
i am thinking of a specific early short movie that impliments narrative.
not so much about them or the camera, but more about narrative and the use of the 3 act stucture in film.
arrgh. this is killing me. i've been searching and nothing.
its either the lumiere bros. or a russian. cant remember.
btw, Bit, I dig the retro lounge. you have many hits from me over the last year or so =P
- chumm0
Are you thinking of Eisenstein?
- BobaFetus0
The Lumiere bros. never thought that cinematography would evolve into a form of art, they considered their own invention a curiosity, not much more. Also... Google is your friend if you know how to use it :P
- ********0
the lumiere brothers famously did "A Voyage To The Moon"
one of the earliest examples of animtion.
They were also responsible for the famous film of a train coming towards the camera that scared the shit out of audiences.
However they never made a full length feature as we would know today, and their experiments in narrative coincided with the likes of Thomas Edison in the United States.
Most of their early narrative films involved setting a camera up and filming a stage play. No cuts, just one point of view.
It wasn't until the Soviets experimented with montage and juxtaposition, such as VI Pudovkin (i think) and famously Eisenstein, that editing as part of Cinema was developed. The importance of photography was pushed by the German Expressionist cinema (Fritz Lang, FW Murnau) , as well as Hollywood pioneers who placed emphasis on composistion of the frame (DW Griffiths for example, and Cecil B De Mille)
i'm a geek.
- BobaFetus0
the lumiere brothers famously did "A Voyage To The Moon"
Kuz
(Mar 2 05, 06:19)
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No they didn't. Georges Méliès did.
- ********0
woops, yeha ur right. my mistakes. It was the magician that dunnit.