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This french entrepreneur operated a photographic plates enterprise with his two sons in Lyon, France.
Who is Antoine Lumiere?
100
This device, created by Etienne Jules Marey, was the first invention to capture moving images and could shoot 12 images per second.
What is the Chronophotographic Gun?
100
Classical theatre is centered around this narrative and literary device.
What is dialogue?
100
Etienne-Jules Marey adapted the fusil photographique to work faster with the addition of this camera feature.
What is the shutter?
100
The apparatus that made group viewing of images possible.
What is the Zoetrope?
200
The first person to accurately describe equestrian motion.
Who is Lieutenant L. Wachter?
200
In 1891, Thomas Edison unveiled this device for viewing motion picture through optical synthesis
What is the Kinetoscope?
200
This century brought an increase in visual awareness to mass media.
What is the 19th century?
200
Joseph-Nicéphore Niépce and Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre are credited for creating this photographic process involving copper plates.
What is the daguerreotype process?
200
The knockoff Kinetoscope, manufactured by Robert W. Paul first appeared in this European country.
What is England?
300
British physician who first explained the phenomenon of the “illusion of stasis”.
Who is Peter Mark Roget?
300
The first motion synthesis device.
What is the Phenakistoscope?
300
A French term that describes bringing together bits and pieces of already known techniques to produce a new capability.
What is Bricolage?
300
Louis Lumiere discovered this new photographic process for developing film in 1881.
What is the “dry plate” process?
300
Reynaud’s Théâtre Optique was compared to what other invention of the 1880s?
What is the Bicycle?
400
French Inventor whose films were shown at the Musee Grévin and featured a musical score.
Who is Emile Reynaud?
400
While Edison’s Kinetoscope was battery driven, This function of the Cinematographe enabled more portability.
What is its hand crank?
400
Lumierre’s estimated profit from the Cinematographe.
What is 2 million francs?
400
The Cinematographe was second billing when premiered publicly, as Louis Lumierre’s main billing was his exploration in this advancement in photography.
What is Color Photography?
400
Charles Baudelaire coined this term to describe Plateau’s Phenakistoscope.
What is a “philosophical plaything”?
500
Walter Benjamin was noted for saying this about Paris based on the material and intellectual property at the time.
What is ”the capital of the nineteenth century”?
500
Lumierre used this “craft”-y device as inspiration to design the mechanics of the Cinematographe.
What is the sewing machine?
500
The first Cinematographe films publicly displayed by Lumierre would be best described by this film genre.
What is the Documentary genre?
500
Etienne-Jules Marey adapted this medical device to create accurate graphic renderings of the movements of the horse.
What is a mechanical pulse reader?
500
Raynaud's Spectacle at the Grévin was characterized by this term because he ran bands at different speeds and often repeated or reversed motions.
What is “incompletely mechanized”?