| Description |
1 online resource (v, 152 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
KINtop Studies in Early Cinema ; v. 1 |
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KINtop studies in early cinema ; v. 1.
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| Contents |
Early Cinema Today:; The Art of; Programming and; Live Performance; Early Cinema Today:; The Art of; Programming and; Live Performance; Edited by; Martin Loiperdinger; Contents; Martin Loiperdinger; Preface; PART I; Programming and Performing; Early Cinema Today -; Outstanding Examples; Andrea Haller and Martin Loiperdinger; Stimulating the Audience:; Early Cinema's Short Film Programme Format 1906 to 1912; PART I; Programming and Performing; Early Cinema Today -; Outstanding Examples; Mariann Lewinsky; The Best Years of Film History:; A Hundred Years Ago; Tom Gunning |
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'From the Bottom of the Sea':Early Film at the Oberhausen Festival; Madeleine Bernstorff; From the Past to the Future:; Suffragettes -Extremists of Visibility in Berlin; Eric de Kuyper; Silent Films in their First Decades -- Objects for Research or for Exhibition?; Vanessa Toulmin; Programming the Local:; Mitchell & Kenyon and the Local Film Show; PART II; Crazy Cinématographe; Early Cinema Performance on; the Luxembourg Fairground; Claude Bertemes, Nicole Dahlen; Back to the Future:; Early Cinema and Late Economy of Attention; An interim report about Crazy Cinématographe; Dick Tomasovic |
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The Crazy Cinématographe, or the Art of the Impromptu SpectatorClaude Bertemes, Nicole Dahlen; The Art of Crazy Programming; Documentation of Crazy Cinématographe Programmes, 2007 to 2010; CONCLUSION; Frank Kessler; Programming and Performing Early Cinema; Today: Strategies and Dispositifs; The Contributors; Picture credits; KINtop |
| Summary |
Invented in the 1890s and premiered in Paris by the Lumière brothers, the cinematograph along with Louis Le Prince's single-lens camera projector are considered by film historians to be the precursors to modern-day motion picture devices. These early movies were often shown in town halls, on fairgrounds, and in theaters, requiring special showmanship skills to effectively work the equipment and entertain onlookers. Within the last decade, film archives and film festivals have unearthed this lost art and have featured outstanding examples of the culture of early cinema reconfigured for today's |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO; viewed on March 12, 2015) |
| Subject |
Motion pictures.
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Short films -- Europe
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Motion pictures -- Europe -- 1900-1910
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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Motion pictures
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Short films
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Europe
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Loiperdinger, Martin, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780861969029 |
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0861969022 |
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086196702X |
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9780861967025 |
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