They were french inventors and pioneer manufacturers of photographic and film equipment who made the one of the first motion-picture camera and projector named theCinématographe (“cinema”. Motion in the shot was all that was necessary to amuse an audience. This can be seen in the film Sortie D'Usine in 1895.
G.A.Smith
In 1899 he made the film Kiss In The Tunnel. This film is said to mark the beginnings of naritive editing. He took advantage of the brief onset of darkness as they went into the tunnel to splice [cut and then stick two pieces of film together.
Another example of his work was in 1899 with the film Miller and the Sweep.
George Melies
George Melies was a magician who had seen the films made by the Lumiere brothers.
Melies saw at once the possibilities of a novelty more than just motion itself.
He acquired a camera, built a studio, wrote scripts, designed sets and soon he discovered and exploited the basic camera tricks we know so well today.
George Melies- In Camera Editing.
It is rumoured that he discovered the art of stop motion purely by accident when a camera of his broke down for a brief second.
In 1896 he made THE VANISHING LADY using a technique known as in camera editing.
Sadly it never occured to him to move the camera for close ups or long shots and so his work was soon overlooked.
The commercial growth of the industry forced him out of buisness in 1913, and he died in poverty.
Elements of his life are depicted in the recent film HUGO.
Porter & Edison
Edwin S. Porter worked as an electrician before joining the film laboratory of Thomas Alva Edison in the late 1890s.
He and Edison worked together to make longer more interesting films.
Edwin S. Porter
Porter made the breakthrough film LIFE OF AN AMERICAN FIREMAN in 1903. The film was among the first that had a plot, action, and even a close up of a hand pulling a fire alarm.
Porter discovered important aspects of motion picture language: that the screen image does not need to show a complete person from head to toe
that splicing together two shots creates in the viewer's mind a contextual relationship.
These were the key discoveries that made all narrative motion pictures and television possible.
THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY
Porter's (then) ground breaking film, THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY(1903) is an excellent example of how early films began to resemble the types of films we see today.
Charles Pathe
in the film THE HORSE THAT BOLTED (1907) Charles Pathe introduces the first example of a technique known as parallel editing- cutting between two story lines:
The Horse
The Delivery man
D. W.Griffith
U.S. film director D.W Griffith was one of the early supporters of the power of editing.
He made use of cross- cutting to show parallel
action in different locations.
Griffith's was one of the first of the early directors to use editing techniques in the production of "feature" length films.
D.W Griffith
His most controversial film and the one his best remembered for was THE BIRTH OF A NATION(1915) In this film there are scenes of the KKK and black slaves.
In Summary
Thomas Edison developed the equipment need to develope moving pictures.
The Lumiere Brothers pioneered the art of moving film.
George Melies was one of the first to use "in-camera" editing.
G.A Smith pioneered the technique of using shots from different locations and developed filming making from single shot films.
Porter, Pathe and Griffith developed the art of story telling through editing.
They made popular the art of "splicing" individual shots together in order to make longer more dramatic films.
G.A.Smith
In 1899 he made the film Kiss In The Tunnel. This film is said to mark the beginnings of naritive editing. He took advantage of the brief onset of darkness as they went into the tunnel to splice [cut and then stick two pieces of film together.
Another example of his work was in 1899 with the film Miller and the Sweep.
George Melies
George Melies was a magician who had seen the films made by the Lumiere brothers.
Melies saw at once the possibilities of a novelty more than just motion itself.
He acquired a camera, built a studio, wrote scripts, designed sets and soon he discovered and exploited the basic camera tricks we know so well today.
George Melies- In Camera Editing.
It is rumoured that he discovered the art of stop motion purely by accident when a camera of his broke down for a brief second.
In 1896 he made THE VANISHING LADY using a technique known as in camera editing.
The commercial growth of the industry forced him out of buisness in 1913, and he died in poverty.
Elements of his life are depicted in the recent film HUGO.
Porter & Edison
Edwin S. Porter worked as an electrician before joining the film laboratory of Thomas Alva Edison in the late 1890s.
He and Edison worked together to make longer more interesting films.
Edwin S. Porter
Porter made the breakthrough film LIFE OF AN AMERICAN FIREMAN in 1903. The film was among the first that had a plot, action, and even a close up of a hand pulling a fire alarm.
Porter discovered important aspects of motion picture language: that the screen image does not need to show a complete person from head to toe
that splicing together two shots creates in the viewer's mind a contextual relationship.
These were the key discoveries that made all narrative motion pictures and television possible.
THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY
Porter's (then) ground breaking film, THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY(1903) is an excellent example of how early films began to resemble the types of films we see today.
in the film THE HORSE THAT BOLTED (1907) Charles Pathe introduces the first example of a technique known as parallel editing- cutting between two story lines:
The Horse
The Delivery man
D. W.Griffith
U.S. film director D.W Griffith was one of the early supporters of the power of editing.
He made use of cross- cutting to show parallel
action in different locations.
Griffith's was one of the first of the early directors to use editing techniques in the production of "feature" length films.
D.W Griffith
His most controversial film and the one his best remembered for was THE BIRTH OF A NATION(1915) In this film there are scenes of the KKK and black slaves.
In Summary
Thomas Edison developed the equipment need to develope moving pictures.
The Lumiere Brothers pioneered the art of moving film.
George Melies was one of the first to use "in-camera" editing.
G.A Smith pioneered the technique of using shots from different locations and developed filming making from single shot films.
Porter, Pathe and Griffith developed the art of story telling through editing.
They made popular the art of "splicing" individual shots together in order to make longer more dramatic films.
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