What is the animation technique that animators use to trace over motion picture footage, frame by frame, to produce realistic action?
Rotoscoping
Who is the British photographer known for his pioneering work in B+W photographic studies of motion, and early work in motion-picture projection?
Eadweard Muybridge
What is Camera Obscura?
A darkened room w. a small hole / lens at one side through which an image is projected by light onto a wall opposite the hole. (Precursor to the pinhole camera)
Inspired by Edison's 1-person-at-a-time Kinetoscope, who were the 1st to present projected silent moving pictures to a paying audience: Dec 1895 in Paris using a device of their own making?
Lumière Brothers (known as the Fathers of Cinema) with their hand-cranked, lightweight Cinématographe, which was a camera, projector, + film printer all in 1.
What was the 1st "Talkie" Film made w. Vitaphone (the leading brand of sound-on-disc technology at the time)?
The 1st "Talkie" feature film was Warner Brothers' "The Jazz Singer." Vitaphone would be soon replaced by the Movietone.
What do you call people who are really into films?
Film Buffs or Cinephiles.
Who was the most beloved, B+W silent movie star + what color were their eyes IRL?
Blue-Eye, Moustached + Bowler-Capped Charlie Chaplin. His funniest + most popular pantomime character was the naive + lovable Little Tramp.
What was the most used musical instrument as live accompaniment for B+W silent movies?
Pianos were the instrument of choice for most movie houses. Both pianos + amateur pianists (mostly young women) were readily available in any town.
What is Technicolor 4 or 3-strip Technicolor, as seen 1st in Silly Symphony "Flowers and Trees" (1932)?
Process of cinematography using synchronized, monochrome films, each captured through a different color filter (R,G,B), + then combined into a full-color print.
What computer animation company did Steve Jobs co-found, originally called Lucas Films' Graphics Group?
PIXAR
Used for Disney's Technicolor animations, what was the Multiplane Camera developed by Ub Iwerks?
A motion-picture camera that moves a # of pieces of artwork past the camera at various speeds + distances from 1 another, creating parallax / 3D depth.
What is IMAX?
A proprietary, enhanced AV experience system in theaters known for having very large screens w. tall aspect ratio, steep stadium seating, + surround sound tech.
How were films like Georges Méliès' "A Trip to the Moon" originally colored?
200 women, assembly-line style, labour-intensive, hand-painted directly on film stock with brushes in more than 20 colors; using stencils techniques
What are the most common 3D Glasses for movies experiences?
Red-Blue 3D Glasses, Polarized Passive, 3D Glasses, + Polarized Active, 3D Glasses (Battery-operated, LCD shutter lenses at 120x per second).
What's the difference b/w Kinemacolor, like Smith's "A Visit to the Seaside" (1908) + early, 2-strip Technicolor?
Kinemacolor exposes succeeding frames, alternating b/w Red + Green. Technicolor exposes 2 frames simultaneously, dividing light by prism into 2 paths: R + G
What is a live-action, animated film, like "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" (1988)?
Film that combines live-action footage + drawn-over animation.
