VINTAGE AUTOMATICKET CINEMA TICKET MACHINE ODEON/CAN (05/28/2011)... Sold For: Click here to upgrade your account Sold Date: 05/28/2011 Channel: Online Auction Source: eBay UK Here is a really wonderfull peice of rare nostalgic cinema history for sale. Having aquired this wonderfull cinema ticket machine over thirty years ago and having had it boxed since then, I have now decided to part with it in the hope it will find a good home.
Flag item for content or copyright. If this item contains incorrect or inappropriate information please If you are the originator/copyright holder of this photo/item and would prefer it be excluded from our community, . Items in the Worthopedia are obtained exclusively from licensors and partners solely for our members’ research needs. History of film. This article is about the history of film as an artistic medium. For the history of motion-picture technology, see History of film technology. New film techniques that were introduced in this period include the use of artificial lighting, fire effects and Low-key lighting (i.e. lighting in which most of the frame is dark) for enhanced atmosphere during sinister scenes.
As films grew longer, specialist writers were employed to simplify more complex stories derived from novels or plays into a form that could be contained on one reel. Genres began to be used as categories; the main division was into comedy and drama, but these categories were further subdivided. The years of the First World War were a complex transitional period for the film industry. The exhibition of films changed from short one-reel programmes to feature films. Exhibition venues became larger and began charging higher prices. D. During the 1980s, audiences began increasingly watching films on their home VCRs. Kinetoscope. Interior view of Kinetoscope with peephole viewer at top of cabinet The Kinetoscope is an early motion picture exhibition device. The Kinetoscope was designed for films to be viewed by one individual at a time through a peephole viewer window at the top of the device. The Kinetoscope was not a movie projector but introduced the basic approach that would become the standard for all cinematic projection before the advent of video, by creating the illusion of movement by conveying a strip of perforated film bearing sequential images over a light source with a high-speed shutter.
First described in conceptual terms by U.S. inventor Thomas Edison in 1888, it was largely developed by his employee William Kennedy Laurie Dickson between 1889 and 1892. On April 14, 1894, the first commercial exhibition of motion pictures in history was given in New York City, using ten Kinetoscopes. Development[edit] Dickson and his then lead assistant, Charles Brown, made halting progress at first. 1909 Cinematograph Act.
Just over a decade after the first film screenings in Britain, the Government introduced the first legislation specifically covering cinemas. The 1909 Cinematograph Act brought cinemas under local authority control and required them to be licensed. The Act was designed to regulate public screenings of films and to ensure that cinemas were in a suitable physical state to screen films safely. The Act was created in the first place because highly unstable nitrate film stock had caused several serious fires. However, the Act had unforeseen consequences in that many local authorities stretched the definition of "inflammable films" to cover not just their physical nature but also the images they contained.
To make matters more complicated, because the Act did not mention the content of films, local authorities took it upon themselves to establish individual guidelines - with the result that material permissible in one region might well be censored in another. Michael Brooke. History%20of%20newsreels%20tv%20news%20and%20ITN. The Early History and Development of Film. Films and the cinematic arts were a dominant form of entertainment throughout the 20th Century. Yet cinema as an art form was invented earlier, in the closing years of the 19th Century. There is no general consensus among film historians as to when exactly the medium of film was born. Some believe it was as early as the 1880s, others as late as 1897. Nonetheless, moving pictures were born when celluloid film was combined with the early cameras. The Lumière brothers or Thomas Edison, both of whom influenced many filmmakers who followed them, are often quoted as being the inventor of modern moving pictures.
Moving pictures is not a single technology, but rather required a mix of three main technologies, with several others tagged on to improve the process. A camera with a shutter speed high enough to be able to freeze motion.A filmstrip capable of taking multiple exposures quickly.A projector to display the images onto a screen in a way that displays motion. Camera Obscura Roget, 1824. Cecil Court | London Filmland. Cecil Court is a small thoroughfare that runs between St Martin’s Lane and Charing Cross Road. As reported last week by Silent London, the street is to get a special plaque from Westminster City Council this Thursday (13 December) to mark its place in film history. This will join the collection of commemorative signs already proudly on display in the street’s shop windows: To people interested in early cinema, Cecil Court is better known by its Edwardian nickname, ‘Flicker Alley’.
It’s a quaint name, a little like something out of Harry Potter, that’s liable to conjure up images of eccentric gentleman-inventors and dusty nitrate. It’s one that has been memorialized by film pioneers like Cecil Hepworth, who writes about the street in his autobiography, as well as lending itself to a company that specializes in silent film DVD releases. Former resident of Cecil Court, Cecil Hepworth Advert for Climax Ticket Machine, Ltd., one of the companies trading on Cecil Court in the 1910s Like this: Review. Robert W. Paul - Biography. Archives Robert William Paul biography. Biographical information on Robert William Paul, a versatile instrument maker. In the late nineteenth century the burgeoning electrical industry encouraged the proliferation of small instrument making firms, often backed by outstanding electrical engineers such as Lord Kelvin, Muirhead and Latimer Clark, names which are remembered today.
One less-known name was that of Robert William Paul who was educated at Finsbury Technical College under Professor William Ayrton and Professor Perry. After working for Elliott Brothers, Lewisham, and the Bell Telephone Company in Antwerp, he started his own instrument-making business in Hatton Garden, London, in 1891. He maintained his links with Finsbury and manufactured instruments devised by Ayrton, Perry, and Mather. The success of these instruments owed much to Paul's skill in design and his meticulous craftsmanship.
Paul also invented instruments himself, as for example, his "unipivot" galvanometer which he devised in 1903. Unipivot instruments. ADVENTURES IN THE FOURTH DIMENSION. THE TIME MACHINE AND THE BIRTH OF CINEMA © Mike Jay In October 1895, the twenty-nine year old H.G.Wells was in the first flush of his fame and success. The Time Machine, serialised the previous year, had appeared in book form over the summer, and was heading for the Christmas bestseller lists on the back of reviews that were already proclaiming its author a ‘man of genius’. Publishers and magazines were scrabbling over the rights to his future work, and outlines and sketches for The Island of Dr.Moreau and War of the Worlds were being briskly circulated on both sides of the Atlantic. But the most curious approach that Wells received that month was from a designer of electrical and optical instruments named Robert W.
What Paul had in mind was not strictly a movie, as the projected motion picture was yet to be invented: the Lumière Brothers’ historic Cinématographe exhibition at the Café de Paris would not take place until December 28 of that year. Robert W. Paul and Ivan E. Sutherland. EarlyCinema.com. Robert William Paul was a successful electrical engineer with his own workshop in Hatton Garden in London when in 1894 he was approached by two Greek entrepreneurs who wanted him to make duplicate version’s of Edison’s Kinetoscope they were already operating. Realising that, a mistake on Edison's part meant there was no patent held on the Kinetoscope in England, Paul seized the opportunity and agreed to make several machines for the Greek gentlemen. Paul successfully copied the Kinetoscope and made several machines which, after fulfilling his order with the Greeks, he sold to other showmen.
Unfortuantely, Paul found his customers unable to show Edison’s films on his machine as they were not licensed Kinetoscope operates and Edison only provided films to those with a license. The camera Paul and Acres produced was based upon Marey’s Chronophotographe and used 35mm sprocketted film which worked with the Kinetoscope design. Top. RW Paul. Robert W Paul is justly celebrated as the leading pioneer of British film and one of the founders of world cinema. Concentrating first on actuality films, he soon branched out, pioneering almost every kind of film from documentary to fiction and fantasy. This unique DVD collection of 62 films, many preserved by the BFI National Archive, represents an attempt to bring together for the first time the collected output of RW Paul and his studio. Paul produced what is arguably the first British narrative film, A Soldier’s Courtship (1896, now lost), and in 1898 became the first man to edit two scenes together in Come Along, Do!.
With the help of former magician Walter Booth, he created elaborate fantasies in the mould of George Méliès such as The ‘?’ Motorist (1906), in which an animated motorcar drives off into space and round the rings of Saturn. These rare films are presented with musical accompaniment by celebrated pianist Stephen Horne. Who's Who of Victorian Cinema. British inventor, film producer Foremost pioneer of the British film industry in its formative years. Robert Paul was born on 3 October 1869 at 3 Albion Place, off Liverpool Road, Highbury, North London. He was educated at the City & Guilds Technical College, Finsbury. Before starting business on his own account in 1891, he worked in the electrical instrument shop of Elliott Brothers in the Strand, where he obtained a practical knowledge of instrument making.
His own business was conducted from 44 Hatton Garden. His main concern was producing instruments to meet the ever-growing demands of the electrical industry and in this he was remarkably successful. In addition to his achievements in the electrical field, Paul holds a unique position in the history of the early cinema. On 24 October 1895, Paul filed a patent application for a moving picture journey through time, inspired by the H.G.
John Barnes. The 1895 Motion Simulator. National Media Museum. Cinematography Articles and Fact Sheets - National Cinematography Collection - Collection. Skip to Main Content Box Office: 0844 856 3797 Search the site Cinematography Articles and Fact Sheets Select from our list of articles and fact sheets to read or reproduce for use as an educational resource. They have been produced with the aim of introducing their reader to a particular subject, furthering knowledge about specific objects and processes, or providing information about the Museum Collection. Most contain a bibliography for suggested further reading. open Cinematography Histories and Subjects open Cinematographic Film and Processes open Filmmakers and Pioneers of Cinematography open Sources of Information and Advice open In the National Cinematography Collection open Cinematography and Conservation openAll ShareThis Explore Our Collection Find out more about the National Cinematography Collection About Us Our Funders Blog posts Follow Us Support Us.
Paul, R.W. (1869-1943) Biography. Robert Paul was the leading pioneer of British film, and made the successful transfer from inventor to entrepreneur to remain a major figure in the industry for its first ten years. Paul was primarily an electrical engineer, and it was to engineering that he successfully returned when he decided to bow out of film. Paul was born in Highbury, north London on 3 October 1869 and educated at the City and Guilds Technical College, Finsbury. He ran his electrical engineering business at 44 Hatton Gardens, London, from 1891. Famously, he stumbled into film in 1894 when asked to produce replica Kinetoscopes by two Greek businessmen who were exploiting the fact that Edison had neglected to patent his invention in Europe. Paul produced his own Kinetoscopes, and naturally finding Edison's own films barred to him, he went into film production himself, employing a photographer, Birt Acres, to assist him. Paul now worked on the logical next step, projecting motion pictures on a screen.
Exhibitions | 1901 Census | Living at the time of the census. Exhibitions | 1901 Census | Cinema. House of Lords - The British Film and Television Industries - Communications Committee. CHAPTER 1: The British Film industry 11. This chapter presents a brief history of the British film industry, focusing on the key issues that have continuing relevance to the success of the industry. It then summarises the current state of the industry, looking in turn at the three distinct but related sectors of the industry: production, distribution and exhibition.
The history of the British film industry 12. 13. 14. 15. Number of feature films produced in the UK, 1912-2008 Source: 1912-2000: Screen Digest; Screen Finance; British Film Institute. 2001-2008: UK Film Council Statistical Yearbook 2009 (including revised figures for 2002-2007). Note: The films are all feature films, made in Britain, including co-productions and films made with inward investment. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. UK cinema admissions and number of screens, 1945-2008 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. The current state of the British film industry[18] 33. 34. Inward investment 35. Pot luck: when did ice-cream make it big in the theatre? | Alistair Smith | Stage. Ice-cream during the interval is an age-old theatre tradition. But, as I was tucking into my miniature tub of mint choc chip in the stalls the other day, I started to wonder why, how and when the stuff first made its way into our theatres.
It's not an obvious match. While ice-cream is, in some ways, well-suited to eating mid-performance – it's much quieter than, say, popcorn – it also has its disadvantages, the most obvious of which is that it needs on-site refrigeration and is likely to melt in our often-overheated theatres. I thought there must be a story behind this, a reason why ice-cream has become as much a part of the theatre experience as overpriced programmes and the scrum for interval drinks. I started looking into it a few weeks ago. I've spoken to theatre producers, theatre researchers and even Loseley, one of the longest-serving and most-widespread suppliers of ice-cream to the theatre market.
Thus far, nobody has been able to give me a reliable answer. Film | Delicious History. The History of … Popcorn & the Movies. BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Antony Gormley; painting Blair; beyond popcorn. A History of Popcorn and the Movies. A short history of movie theater concession stands. Plus: A candy quiz! The Food Companions: Cinema and Consumption in Wartime Britain, 1939-45. Film discovery offers insight into Islington’s Hollywood history - Cinema. Browse Shapes. General Introduction. Layout. The University of Exeter - The Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Centre. A History of British Film: Pioneers.
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