March 6, 2013
June 11, 2012
Stepping Stones in Film History
Book by David Parkinson
Blog by Maria Popova
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/05/18/100-ideas-that-changed-film/
November 2, 2011
Happy All Souls Day
The Skeleton of Joy (Le Squelette joyeux, 1897)
The Lumiere brothers early animation of stopmotion trick film of a dancing skeleton, mounted on occasionally visible strings.
More about these early innovators:
http://www.weirdwildrealm.com/f-lumiere.html
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blmotionpictures.htm
July 27, 2011
Film History links:
David Bordwell's blog
http://davidbordwell.net/
Doing Film History:
http://davidbordwell.net/essays/doing.php
December 6, 2010
Eisenstein Montage Themes
http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/~mscidm/eisenstein/themes.html
From the pioneering Soviet Russian film director and film theorist, often considered to be the "Father of Montage."
November 14, 2010
Jan Svankmajer > Experimental Stop-Mo Animation
A trailer for a non-existent Jan Svankmajer Collection consisting of many short clips from five of his full-length films. Jan Svankmajer is a Czech surrealist artist and filmmaker. His work spans several media. He is known for his surreal animations and features, which have greatly influenced other artists such as Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, the Brothers Quay, Shane Acker, and many others.
Fascinating and disturbing!
November 12, 2010
History of Stop-Mo
I love stop motion from chloe fleury on Vimeo.
November 11, 2010
Man with a Movie Camera @ Zinema2
Highly Recommended
at Zinema next week November 19, 20:
http://www.zinema2.com/index.php/Zinema/events/the_man_with_the_movie_camera_-_shana_david/
Part of a pair of screenings of the classic Russian film "The Man With The Movie Camera" presented with live scores written and performed by local artists. This night features the music of Shana David who will be joined by Eric Pollard of Retribution Gospel Choir. The Man with the Movie Camera is an experimental 1929 silent documentary film, with no story and no actors, by Russian director Dziga Vertov, edited by his wife Elizaveta Svilova. Vertov's feature film, produced by the Ukrainian film studio VUFKU, presents urban life in Odessa and other Soviet cities. From dawn to dusk Soviet citizens are shown at work and at play, and interacting with the machinery of modern life. To the extent that it can be said to have "characters," they are the cameramen of the title and the modern Soviet Union he discovers and presents in the film. This film is famous for the range of cinematic techniques Vertov invents, deploys or develops, such as double exposure, fast motion, slow motion, freeze frames, jump cuts, split screens, Dutch angles, extreme close-ups, tracking shots, footage played backwards, stop motion animations and a self-reflexive style.
February 24, 2010
George Melies - pioneer filmmaker
early French silent films by George Melies
"the Merry Frolics of Satan" (1906)
A trip to the moon (1902)
watch a student documentary on The Father of Special Effects
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXwGN2uSsn0
January 22, 2010
The Archive > Films Online
The Archive
http://www.archive.org/details/movies
The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library. Its purposes include offering permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format.
Feature films and shorts
http://www.archive.org/details/feature_films
Animation
http://www.archive.org/details/animationandcartoons
Prelinger Archives was founded in 1983 by Rick Prelinger in New York City. Over the next twenty years, it grew into a collection of over 60,000 "ephemeral" (advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur) films.
http://www.archive.org/details/prelinger
Archive Mash-ups
http://www.archive.org/details/prelinger_mashups
The Film Wall
http://www.thefilmwall.com/
TFW or thefilmwall is a social website to get links to watch free movies online. We grow with your contributions of movies links. You can upload and share movies links to your favorite movies...
November 23, 2009
Tim Burton discusses his artwork
On view November 22, 2009-April 26, 2010 at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. For more information, please visit http://www.moma.org/timburton All images courtesy of Tim Burton and © 2009 Tim Burton Films.
November 5, 2009
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919)
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Often cited as the first true horror film...
January 21, 2009
A long list of directors
Here is a long list ( though incomplete) of important film directors
and a few films from their careers...