The creation of invisible technique
The ability to record an event on film was achieved in the latter part of the nineteenth century. During the next two decades, there was the transition from the practice of running the camera continuously to record an event, to the stop/start technique of separate shots where the camera was repositioned between each shot in order to film new material. The genesis of film narrative was established.
The screen was conceived as an acting area similar to the stage as seen by an audience in a theatre. The action moved within the screen space without either the camera moving or the size of shot changing. All the techniques that we are familiar with now had to be learnt in the first two decades ...
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