History of cinema

Evolution of cinema

Cave Paintings - The need to record movement dates back to the dawn of humanity.
Paintings were the first ways of representing the dynamic aspects of human life.

Shadow play - Appears in China, around 5000 B.C. It is the projection, on walls or
linen screens, of cut and manipulated human figures, animals or objects.

Cinema was born from several innovations, from photographic mastery to the synthesis
of movement, using the persistence of vision with the invention of optical games. The
most important were:

Thaumatropion Phenacystoscope

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Zootropium5 Praxinoscope
Will Horner Émilie Reynaud

With the photographic domain, several inventors, from countries such as France and the
United States, developed devices to capture and project moving images. Let's look at
some of these machines:

Dark Chamber - Developed by Neapolitan physicist Giambattista Della Porta in the

16th century. Through it the rays reflected by external objects penetrate and cross. The
image, inverted, is inscribed on the face of the bottom, inside the box.

Magic Lantern - Created by the German Athanasius Kirchner in the 17th century, it
was an object composed of a cylinder illuminated by candlelight to project images
drawn on a glass slide.

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Kinetoscope - Launched in 1894 at the factory run by Thomas Edison (1847-1931) in

the United States, the kinetoscope was an individual machine for watching short films.

The invention was only possible because Edison created a celluloid film capable of
storing the images and thus projecting them through the lens.

Cinematograph - Conceived by the Lumièr brothers in 1895 from the improvement of

the kinetoscope, they were the inventors of the cinematograph, and are often referred to
as the fathers of cinema.

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William Fitton Joseph Plateau Will Horner

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Émilie Reynaud Giambattista Della Porta Athanasius Kirchner

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Thomas Edison Brothers Lumièr

Activities - Cinema History

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Giovanni Battista della Porta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (wikipedia.org)
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Athanasius Kircher - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (wikipedia.org)
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Auguste and Louis Lumière - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (wikipedia.org)
 1. Presenting the history of cinema on powerpoint

2. Create a Quiz for cinema history

2.1.How you can create your own games with Quizizz:

Quizizz It is a quiz tool that can be used to make multiple choice or true/false
assessments, but can also be used to get feedback on students' learning in real time in
class or as homework.

To create a quiz, follow these steps

1- Click on Create from the left navigation pane and select the Quiz option

2- Name and tag the quiz appropriately. A maximum of 3 tags are allowed per quiz

3- Create questions using the Quiz Editor. The supported formats to create questions
are:

a)Multiple Choice

b)Check-Box

c)Fill-in-the-blanks

d)Open-Ended

e)Poll

4- Type your question within the dialog box and add options. You can also -

a)Edit the options

b)Add math equations

 c)Add images to questions and options

You can also create audio for the questions

1- Add options and mark the correct answer. Multiple answers are chosen via the
checkbox format

2- Add an explanation for the answer if required

3- Choose the time allotted to answer a question. You can select this per question or
make it consistent throughout a quiz

4- Save the question

5- Save the quiz once all questions and answers (along with options) are added

6- Publish the quiz. This quiz is now available in your library to start a live quiz or
assign as homework
2. Chinese shadows

As part of the activities on the history of cinema we can create a Chinese shadow theatre
with the students.

Material: Cardboard, baking paper, toothpicks, glue, scissors, paint, shoebox.

Students will create their own Chinese shadow puppet theatre. They just need to choose
the story, its characters and the materials mentioned above.

3. Make a Thaumatopium

Create 2 circles of the same size.

Draw a picture.

Glue one to the other. Drill a hole in the ends.

Put a string on it.

 4. Make a Fenacistoscope

5. Others activities