- Robert W. Paul – Films and Technology: Part Six. Of Sprockets and CrossesThe Technology – Hands On ‘Written descriptions are not enough to develop a real understanding of the machine and its functioning. Physical experience is needed to inform the understanding, and to eliminate misapprehensions and misunderstandings.’John Ellis, ‘Why hands on history matters’, in Hands On Media History (Routledge, 2020) It seems reasonable to suggest that aContinue reading “Robert W. Paul – Films and Technology: Part Six. Of Sprockets and Crosses”
- Robert W. Paul – Films and Technology: Part Five. Sparks, Explosions, and Animated DrawingsSound waves Last time, Paul had left the film business. Let’s skip back a few years. A most interesting aspect of the innovative film work Paul was involved with around 1900 was the production of several ‘series’ of scientific demonstration films, which he describes in his 1908 article ‘The Kinematograph in Technical Education’.[1] There wereContinue reading “Robert W. Paul – Films and Technology: Part Five. Sparks, Explosions, and Animated Drawings”
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