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Before. We begin. A question.

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What? Was the most important century

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in terms of pioneering the out

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of cinema. Certainly.

0:58

A clay must be stake for

1:00

the twentieth century, which saw advancements

1:03

such as narrative filmmaking, Color.

1:06

Sound. Television and the

1:08

establishing of cinema as the

1:10

most popular form of entertainment

1:12

on the planet. However, we

1:14

must never ignore the pioneers

1:16

of the nineteenth century, for

1:18

it was during this remarkable

1:21

time that the great conceptualize

1:23

is saw in their imaginations.

1:25

What may be possible should

1:27

their contributions one day pooled

1:29

together to create an art

1:31

for. The

1:34

nineteenth century was a grand

1:36

laboratory from which emerged the

1:38

medium we know today as

1:40

cinema. Briefly

1:42

in Eighteen Twenty Four, Peter

1:44

Mark Roget, the man who

1:47

would in Eighteen Fifty to

1:49

immortalize his name by providing

1:51

to the world Roget's thesaurus

1:54

presented a groundbreaking concept to

1:56

the Royal Society entitled explanation

1:58

of an Optical. Section in

2:00

the appearance of the spokes

2:03

of a wheel when seen

2:05

through vertical attitude. From this

2:07

concept sprang the persistence of

2:09

vision theory and then motion

2:11

perception which in it's most

2:13

basic form is the rule

2:15

by which a series of

2:18

images rapidly displayed in sequence

2:20

create the illusion of movement.

2:22

And from this concept Edward

2:24

my Bridge pioneer to system

2:26

by which multiple cameras could

2:28

be used to photograph. A

2:30

moving object, When viewed

2:33

in quick succession, these assembled

2:35

images resembled captured motion, a

2:37

technique he proved to the

2:39

world with He's moving pictures

2:41

of animals, the most famous

2:43

being a galloping horse, Mask.

2:47

This system was in elegance,

2:49

cumbersome and of little use

2:51

to think is busy devising

2:53

ways to tell stories through

2:55

motion pictures. The. Holy grail

2:57

of the new Os was to

2:59

create a machine consisting of a

3:02

single camera through which a moving

3:04

object could be photographed. Hard.

3:06

At work on bringing this unicorn

3:08

to live where a host of

3:11

the biggest names in the field

3:13

including William Fried Green and Thomas

3:15

Edison to could see the value

3:18

and potential in being the man

3:20

to whom the critical patents of

3:23

Motion pictures below. But.

3:25

It was someone else who would

3:27

beat these great names to the

3:30

finish line. in a quiet corner

3:32

of the north of England, Doing

3:38

A friend sent me morning the

3:41

north of France and had found

3:43

his way to Lead in England

3:45

through an invitation from a friend

3:48

there. He had married a talented

3:50

artist, Elizabeth, and sounded the leads

3:52

technical school of art, where he

3:55

pioneered photographic techniques such as the

3:57

printing of photographs upon household objects.

4:00

Which proved so popular that

4:02

even Queen Victoria and Prime

4:04

Minister Gladstone had commissioned portraits

4:06

of themselves upon pottery. But

4:10

in the wake of Edward

4:12

My Bridges and groundbreaking experiments

4:14

with motion pictures, Louis the

4:16

Prince found himself drawn to

4:18

the seemingly unsolvable problem of

4:20

how to create a single

4:22

camera capable of producing the

4:24

work of. In

4:28

order to create the illusion of

4:30

motion and have been determined that

4:32

sixteen photographs would need to be

4:35

taken each second which when replayed

4:37

would fool the brain into thinking

4:39

that it was seen. Movement and

4:42

knots. a series of static images.

4:45

In Eighteen eighty One, Louis

4:47

the Prince, created and patented

4:50

his first machine, a single

4:52

camera containing sixteen lenses which

4:54

almost pulled off the magic

4:56

trick the world. Had been

4:58

seeking. The problem was that

5:01

each of these sixteen lenses

5:03

photograph the moving subjects at

5:05

a slightly different viewpoints. The

5:09

resulting moving image therefore did

5:11

appear to move but when

5:13

projected back jumped around the

5:15

screen making the viewing experience

5:18

and unpleasant. The Queasy: It

5:21

was Lula Prince's supposition. Therefore, that not

5:23

only was a whole new way of

5:26

shooting the image required. A new

5:28

type of film was also needed. Instead

5:32

of many photographic plates, a single

5:34

strip of film which when said

5:36

through and past the lens good

5:38

record the movements of a such.

5:44

A piece of how rushing past

5:46

and lens would never capture a

5:48

perfect image because the film itself

5:50

would be moving during the exposure,

5:52

meaning that the images being captured

5:54

would blur. The. Prince designed

5:56

and all new camera system which

5:59

not only. The film to

6:01

the lens back caught it.

6:03

it opened, The iris of

6:05

the camera, caught the image

6:07

upon the waiting film, then

6:09

repeated the process sixteen times.

6:11

A second. When

6:17

the resulting film was real

6:19

before I projects at right

6:21

speed on all and to

6:24

move. In

6:27

eighteen eighty eights, Louis, the

6:29

Prince had cracked the problem

6:31

that had for so long

6:33

confounded his fellow pioneer. To.

6:37

Test his new system. Blueprints

6:39

took several. On

6:43

October fourteenth, Eighteen Eighty Eight instructed

6:45

his son at of with whom

6:47

he had developed the camera system

6:49

to walk around their garden that

6:51

Oakwood Grange in Round Hey leads

6:54

in the company of to family

6:56

members and a friend. The.

6:59

Film which survives to this

7:01

day became known as Round

7:03

Hey Garden Scene and is

7:05

the oldest surviving film and

7:08

existence Running for Me at

7:10

one point. Six. Further,

7:13

Films were made of traffic. And

7:16

asterisk. Lula

7:20

prince and his family were

7:22

under no illusions about the

7:24

of the disk. The

7:27

Prince had essentially leapfrogged the

7:29

efforts of Edison and Good

7:31

now potentially establish himself as

7:34

the epicenter of all cinematic

7:36

pack. In

7:40

order to showcase this groundbreaking

7:42

the treatment, they released an

7:44

announcement and chose to premiere

7:46

the system in the grandest

7:48

of all cities. New. York

7:51

to a world hungry

7:53

with anticipation. Blueprints,

7:58

Knew that once the system

8:00

had being presented as promised

8:02

that his work would engulf

8:04

is coming years. Need affecting

8:06

and refining of the system

8:08

would be essential as would

8:10

mass production and New York

8:12

seems be perfect location for

8:14

this new endeavor. The

8:19

family was sent along ahead in order

8:21

to set up shop while Lula Prince

8:23

close down his affairs in England, then

8:26

journey to cross to France in order

8:28

to settle family business with his brother

8:30

in visual. On

8:33

September sixteenth, eighty ninety, the

8:36

Prince waved goodbye to his

8:38

brother and forty two, forty

8:40

two tray from Dijon to

8:42

Pass. Friends

9:01

awaiting his arrival in Paris

9:03

watched as the trains passengers

9:06

december. But

9:08

Louis, the Prince was not

9:10

among them. His baggage also

9:12

was nowhere to be found,

9:15

In fact, Louis Litt

9:18

Prince was never seen

9:20

again. And

9:22

what happened. Was

9:25

even more. You've.

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