[09:11 Tue,28.August 2018 by Thomas Richter] |
The ARTE documentary "When the cinema grew up - milestones of film technology" tells the highly interesting story of the evolution of film technology - especially of course the (analogue) film camera. It&s nice to see how technical innovations have always had an impact on visual language - for example, how the images changed when the initially stationary camera became a gently moving one, then later a liberated one. And the filmed images changed significantly when a viewfinder was available to the cameramen for the first time and they could see the exact image that the camera took - completely new image compositions became possible. And also the innovations Dolly, Kamerakran and Steadicam led to new pictures. And (then as now) the development of technology is also a story of lost and forgotten technologies: for a time, for example, the sound was recorded parallel to the film on disk. And a second camera shot the identical events in the early history of cinema as a kind of backup in order to create a backup of the film. And who knows the sound boxes in the silent movie theater, which, in addition to the musicians, provided the appropriate SFX background music live? The documentary from 2015 can still be seen until 28.8 in the ARTE media centre, or on YouTube: And here are some of the films mentioned that pioneered new film techniques: Caibiria: Buster Keaton: The Cameraman The Man with the Movie Camera(1929) Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans | F.W. Murnau (1927) Touch of Evil Opening Shot: more infos at bei www.arte.tv deutsche Version dieser Seite: Doku: Meilensteine der Filmtechnik |