Segundo de Chomon (Spain)
An early pioneer of film techniques and methods, Segundo de Chomon is credited with developing "the dolly" (a camera on rails for tracking shots). His movie The Electric Hotel (1905) was an early breakthrough in stop frame.
Alice Guy (France)
One of the inventors of narrative film who directed The Cabbage Patch (1896), one of the first films to have a plot.
Edwin S.Porter (USA)
Directed The life of an American firefighter (1903) which contains many technical innovations including; A close up, use of medium and wide shots, intercutting of actual footage with staged sequences and use of dissolves as transitions to suggest the passage of time.
He also directed The Great Train Robbery (1903) which presents the basic generic conventions of a Western. In this film he used intercutting and parallel editing to create suspense. He also used different camera angles rather than having actors centre-frame.
Winsor McCay (USA)
An american cartoonist who began to animate with his short Little Nemo (1911). He later made How a Mosquito Operates (1912).
Cecil M. Hepworth (England)
Produced, wrote and starred in Rescued by Rover (1905) with his wife and child. This was a forerunner to films like Lassie that star dogs. Smooth cutting during chase sequences was unparalleled at the time. The film ends on a freeze-frame of a happy family, a clichee now, but original back then.
An early pioneer of film techniques and methods, Segundo de Chomon is credited with developing "the dolly" (a camera on rails for tracking shots). His movie The Electric Hotel (1905) was an early breakthrough in stop frame.
Alice Guy (France)
One of the inventors of narrative film who directed The Cabbage Patch (1896), one of the first films to have a plot.
Edwin S.Porter (USA)
Directed The life of an American firefighter (1903) which contains many technical innovations including; A close up, use of medium and wide shots, intercutting of actual footage with staged sequences and use of dissolves as transitions to suggest the passage of time.
He also directed The Great Train Robbery (1903) which presents the basic generic conventions of a Western. In this film he used intercutting and parallel editing to create suspense. He also used different camera angles rather than having actors centre-frame.
Winsor McCay (USA)
An american cartoonist who began to animate with his short Little Nemo (1911). He later made How a Mosquito Operates (1912).
Cecil M. Hepworth (England)
Produced, wrote and starred in Rescued by Rover (1905) with his wife and child. This was a forerunner to films like Lassie that star dogs. Smooth cutting during chase sequences was unparalleled at the time. The film ends on a freeze-frame of a happy family, a clichee now, but original back then.
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