https://padlet.com/manchester/movies Made with eyes on the prize en-us 2017-02-06 14:27:16 UTC 2026-01-19 14:25:05 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/manchester/movies/wish/151827281 The history of film began in the 1890s, when motion picture cameras were invented and film production companies started to be established]]> 2017-02-06 14:36:54 UTC https://padlet.com/manchester/movies/wish/151827281 https://padlet.com/manchester/movies/wish/151828688 In 1857, Oscar Rejlander created the world's first "trick photograph" by combining different sections of 30 negatives into a single image. In 1895, Alfred Clark created what is commonly accepted as the first-ever motion picture special effect. While filming a reenactment of the beheading of Mary, Queen of Scots, Clark instructed an actor to step up to the block in Mary's costume. As the executioner brought the axe above his head, Clark stopped the camera, had all of the actors freeze, and had the person playing Mary step off the set. He placed a Mary dummy in the actor's place, restarted filming, and allowed the executioner to bring the axe down, severing the dummy's head. Techniques like these would dominate the production of special effects for a century.]]> 2017-02-06 14:39:47 UTC https://padlet.com/manchester/movies/wish/151828688 https://padlet.com/manchester/movies/wish/151829433 First film techniques were introduced in this period including the use of artificial lighting, fire effects and low-key lighting]]> 2017-02-06 14:41:20 UTC https://padlet.com/manchester/movies/wish/151829433 https://padlet.com/manchester/movies/wish/151830452 2017-02-06 14:43:31 UTC https://padlet.com/manchester/movies/wish/151830452 https://padlet.com/manchester/movies/wish/151831781 1968's 2001: A Space Odyssey
The shots of spaceships were combined through hand-drawn rotoscoping and careful motion-control work, ensuring that the elements were precisely combined in the camera – a surprising throwback to the silent era, but with spectacular results. ]]> 2017-02-06 14:46:37 UTC https://padlet.com/manchester/movies/wish/151831781 https://padlet.com/manchester/movies/wish/151833021 2017-02-06 14:49:12 UTC https://padlet.com/manchester/movies/wish/151833021 https://padlet.com/manchester/movies/wish/151834251 2017-02-06 14:51:48 UTC https://padlet.com/manchester/movies/wish/151834251 https://padlet.com/manchester/movies/wish/151834848 The second was precipitated by the blockbuster success of two science fiction and fantasy films in 1977. George Lucas's Star Wars ushered in an era of science-fiction films with expensive and impressive special-effects. Effects supervisor John Dykstra, A.S.C. and crew developed many improvements in existing effects technology. The effects crew assembled by Lucas and Dykstra was dubbed Industrial Light & Magic, and since 1977 has spearheaded most effects innovations.]]> 2017-02-06 14:53:05 UTC https://padlet.com/manchester/movies/wish/151834848 https://padlet.com/manchester/movies/wish/151835225 2017-02-06 14:53:53 UTC https://padlet.com/manchester/movies/wish/151835225 https://padlet.com/manchester/movies/wish/151835495 2017-02-06 14:54:29 UTC https://padlet.com/manchester/movies/wish/151835495 https://padlet.com/manchester/movies/wish/151835743 Arguably the biggest and most "spectacular" use of CGI is in the creation of photo-realistic images of science-fiction and fantasy characters, settings, and objects. Images can be created in a computer using the techniques of animated cartoons and model animation. In 1993, stop-motion animators working on the realistic dinosaurs of Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park were retrained in the use of computer input devices.]]> 2017-02-06 14:55:06 UTC https://padlet.com/manchester/movies/wish/151835743