- The First (and Last) Frame. Part Two: Taxonomy Chart, ‘Stroboscopic’ Images, A-DThe following Taxonomy Chart is an attempt to categorize ‘stroboscopic’ moving picture systems, from 1833 – perhaps the first appearance of such sequences (but I’ve included a few simple predecessors) – to the end of 1895, a fairly arbitrary cut-off point, chosen to make the sample manageable. But it is intended that the Chart couldContinue reading “The First (and Last) Frame. Part Two: Taxonomy Chart, ‘Stroboscopic’ Images, A-D”
- The First (and Last) Frame. Part One: WordsIntroduction In a society that values ‘firsts’ in a superficial Guinness World Records sense, questions sometimes asked or written about in popular media are: ‘What was the first film?’ ‘When was the first film?’ ‘Who made it?’ And, by extrapolation we could ask – ‘What was the first frame of the first film; the FirstContinue reading “The First (and Last) Frame. Part One: Words”
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