Pioneers

Edwin Stanton Porter

    Thomas Edison Jr. Of the Caribbean
    Traveling Projectionist
    1899 Hired by his “Father” as Cameraman
    Rises to Head of Production

    1903 Live of an American Fireman

            The impact of one shot on another
            Stock Footage
            Creative Geography
            Creative Geography 
                Lev Kuleshov
            Copyright Version
            Cross-Cut Version
                Charles Musser 

    1903 The Great Train Robbery
        First of Last
        Broncho Billy Anderson
             Max Aronson

    1905 Seven Ages of Man
         As You Like It?

Brighton School
    Big Swallow - James Williamson

Cecil Hepworth
    Barbara & Blair
    1904 Rescued by Rover

Société Film d’Art
    1908 The Assassination of the Duc de Guise
        Comédie Française
        Saint-Saëns

Famous Players in Famous Plays
    Adolph Zukor
    Paramount Pictures
    1912 Queen Elizabeth
        Sarah Bernhardt
        44 minutes

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Movies and Magic

“Any sufficiently advanced techonolgy is indistinguishable from magic . . .”
    Arthur C. Clark

Robert Houdin
    Father of modern Magic
    Napolion III, the Marabue of Algeria and the “light and heavy box”

Those Wonderful Automata
    Turk - Wolfgang von Kempelen
    Psycho - John Ne3vil Maskelyne
    Orange Tree & Antonio Diablo - Robert Houdin

Light
Those Magic Lanterns
Fantasmagorie
    Êtienne Gaspard Robert
    Capuchin Monastery (1797)

Limelight (1820)
    Ronin’s “Living Phantamagoria”
    Transformations

Egyptian Hall (1873)
    “England’s House of Mystery”
        John Nevil Maskelynne
        George Algred Cooke
        David Devant

    “Will the Witch and the Watchman”

The Black Art (1884)
    Max Ousinger ~ Ben Ali Bey

Georges Méliès 1861 - 1938
    London (1885)
    Theatre Houdin (1888)

    Happy Accidents
        Lumiere’s Move in
        Edison misses boat
        Robert William Paul Projects
        Camera jams

    Does it all
        Drama
        Science Fiction
        Commercials
        Soft Core Porn

    Special viewings:
        Le voyage dans la lune
        Le voyage extraordinaire (excerpt)

Ehrich Weiss
    The Master of Mystery 1910
    Terror Island 1919
    The Man From Beyond 1922
    Haldane of the Secret Service 1923

Amazing Carter

The even more amazing Bernard Schwartz 1953