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  2. Precursors of film - Wikipedia

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    Precursors of film are concepts and devices that have much in common with the later art and techniques of cinema. Precursors of film are often referred to as precinema , or 'pre-cinema'. Terms like these are disliked by several historians, partly because they seem to devalue the individual qualities of these media by presenting them as a small ...

  3. Category:Precursors of film - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Precursors of film" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...

  4. History of film - Wikipedia

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    The use of film as an art form traces its origins to several earlier traditions in the arts such as (oral) storytelling, literature, theatre and visual arts. Cantastoria and similar ancient traditions combined storytelling with series of images that were shown or indicated one after the other.

  5. History of film technology - Wikipedia

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    Celluloid Mavericks: A History of American Independent Film. Thunder's Mouth Press, 2001. Musser, Charles (1990). The Emergence of Cinema: The American Screen to 1907. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. ISBN 0-684-18413-3. Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey, ed. The Oxford History of World Cinema. Oxford University Press, 1999. Parkinson, David. History of ...

  6. List of cinematic firsts - Wikipedia

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    U2 3D was the first live-action film to be shot, posted, and exhibited entirely in 3D, [128] the first live-action digital 3D film, [129] and the first 3D concert film. [130] Regarding its production, it was the first 3D film shot using a zoom lens , [ 131 ] an aerial camera , [ 132 ] and a multiple-camera setup . [ 129 ]

  7. Optical toys - Wikipedia

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    The phenakistiscope, zoetrope, praxinoscope and flip book a.o. are often seen as precursors of film, leading to the invention of cinema at the end of the 19th century. In the 21st century, this narrow teleological vision was questioned and the individual qualities of these media gained renewed attention of researchers in the fields of the ...

  8. The Story of Film: An Odyssey - Wikipedia

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    The Story of Film: An Odyssey is a 2011 British documentary film about the history of film, presented on television in 15 one-hour chapters with a total length of over 900 minutes. It was directed and narrated by Mark Cousins , a film critic from Northern Ireland , based on his 2004 book The Story of Film .

  9. Man Walking Around a Corner - Wikipedia

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    Man Walking Around A Corner The entire film animated. Man Walking Around a Corner is an early film/precursor of film, shot by Louis Le Prince in August 1887. [1] It was taken on the corner of Rue Bochart-de-Saron and Avenue Trudaine in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. Pictures from the film were sent in a letter dated 18 August 1887 to his wife.