

Griffith in America who represent some of the most important of these at the time. Porter in America, Georges Melies in France Dziga Vertov, Sergei Eisenstein in Russia, D.W. Because of this, early film could in this way be seen as early photoplays and the people best qualified for this had been the painters, architects and sculptors such as Edwin S. In the era of the new films being made from the early 20th century, which had come out of the experiments that were taking place in photography one could say that then motion was added to the photograph.

This fact would change the role of images in society and greatly increase the influence upon us. This period would be when the new mechanical technologies such as photographic, cinematic, and arriving soon after, television or televisual images would all be infinitely reproducible. Through its system of production, the rules of understanding images changed for everybody in significant ways. Following photography and its technological discoveries, Film production would continue to reveal the new link between art and the new developments in science during the early 19th century and the invention of film in the 1890s. In fact, experiments in Electronic Media had originally begun in 1877 with the sound recordings Edison had made with his cylinder phonograph and the Gramophone (1898) and continuing with radio and silent movies of the 1920s and then talking cinema from 1926 which came out with the Jazz Singer. One of the first theories of film in the English Language was Vachel Lindsay’s The Art of the Moving Picture, which was published in 1915 which described the motion picture as a great high art. who we already discussed in the tutorials. This was changed however by new people such as Moholy-Nagy, Rodchenko, Man Ray etc. As we learnt a couple of weeks ago in previous lectures, from the beginning of photography, photographers had always attempted to produce photographs which could be accepted by the same criteria as painting. In fact, we must understand that changing historical understandings of images have been directly influenced by imaging technologies. The Power and Impact of Film to Capture Social Events and Mass Change

Presented at the University of Western Sydney, School of Communication Arts, College of Arts, University of Western Sydney 'Cinema and Mass Media in Modernity: Walter Benjamin and the Reproducible Image’ĭesign Lecture by Dr Cyrus Manasseh PhD Presented C.
