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  2. Larry Jordan - Wikipedia

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    In 1970 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship to make Sacred Art of Tibet. [6] In 2008 Facets Multi-Media released the Lawrence Jordan Album, a DVD collection with 25 of his films. [4] The Camera Obscura Film Society was re-established in 2015, and Jordan's films are screened as part of its annual report in Petaluma, California. [7]

  3. History of film technology - Wikipedia

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    stroboscopic "persistence of vision" animation devices (phénakisticope since 1833, zoetrope since 1866, flip book since 1868) Live projection of moving images occurs in the camera obscura (also known as "pinhole image"), a natural phenomenon that may have been used artistically since prehistory. Very occasionally, the camera obscura was used ...

  4. Camera obscura - Wikipedia

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    A camera obscura (pl. camerae obscurae or camera obscuras; from Latin camera obscūra 'dark chamber') [1] is the natural phenomenon in which the rays of light passing through a small hole into a dark space form an image where they strike a surface, resulting in an inverted (upside down) and reversed (left to right) projection of the view outside.

  5. History of the camera - Wikipedia

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    An 18th-century artist utilizing a camera obscura for image tracing. The camera obscura (from the Latin for 'dark room') is a natural optical phenomenon and precursor of the photographic camera. It projects an inverted image (flipped left to right and upside down) of a scene from the other side of a screen or wall through a small aperture onto ...

  6. Precursors of film - Wikipedia

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    In the early days of film the word "photoplay" was quite commonly used for motion pictures. This illustrates how a movie can be thought of as a photographed play.Much of the production for a live-action movie is similar to that of a theatre play, with very similar contributions by actors, a theatre director/film director, producers, a set designer, lighting designer, costume designer, composer ...

  7. History of film - Wikipedia

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    Predecessors to film that had already used light and shadows to create art before the advent of modern film technology include shadowgraphy, shadow puppetry, camera obscura, and the magic lantern. Shadowgraphy and shadow puppetry represent early examples of the intent to use moving imagery for entertainment and storytelling. [1]

  8. Johann Zahn - Wikipedia

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    He also illustrated a large workshop camera obscura for solar observations using the telescope and scioptric ball. Zahn also includes an illustration of a camera obscura in the shape of a goblet, based on a design described (but not illustrated) by Pierre Hérigone. Zahn also designed several portable camera obscuras, and made one that was 23 ...

  9. Museum zur Vorgeschichte des Films - Wikipedia

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    The camera obscura provides a 360° panoramic view of the Garden Show grounds and the Ruhr promenades. On the projection table, all objects at a distance of 13 meters from the tower to the horizon can be shown in sharp focus. [4] The optical system consists of a rotatable head with a tilting mirror and lens. The mirror has a free diameter of ...