1865: The OLDEST Motion Picture Movie

[Roisin]

I stumbled on the following video yesterday. Here's what it is.... (you'll be amazed!)


The world's oldest photographic moving picture sequence and oldest sound recording, combined together. Legendary French photographer Felix Nadar created his revolving portrait in 1865, a precursor to the later sequential photo work of Muybridge and Marey. Here it is, animated into motion, as we listen to Leon Scott's "Jeune Jouvencelle", the earliest known sound recording inscribed with a specific date, August 17, 1857. This recording was made at an early stage of Scott's work, before a tuning fork was used to calibrate pitch fluctuations ; therefore the "tune" cannot be corrected to a recognizable melody, but we certainly can recognize it as the sound of a human voice. Both works are in public domain. Special thanks to FirstSounds.org for the sound recording.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq9Yv9RwMZ4

Anyway, thanks to You Tube, as each year passes by, we are now seeing more and more of those old motion pictures recorded back in the pioneer days of motion picture filmography. I find them absolutely fascinating... including those earliest attempts at audio recordings too. Then, of course, there are those early photographs out there too.

[Roisin]

Here's a video of the earliest photographs ever taken! A real "must see" for anyone who's interested in this topic!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LkaFCa29mQ

[Roisin]

Here's the earliest color film ever recorded which was 1901! :eek:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V0Vc5iRoLY


The world's first colour moving pictures dating from 1902 have been found by the National Media Museum in Bradford after lying forgotten in an old tin for 110 years.

The discovery is a breakthrough in cinema history.

Michael Harvey, from the National Media Museum, and Bryony Dixon, from the British Film Institute, talk about the importance of the discovery.

The previous earliest colour film, using the Kinemacolour process, was thought to date from 1909 and was actually an inferior method.

The newly-discovered films were made by pioneer Edward Raymond Turner from London who patented his colour process on 22 March 1899.

The story of Edwardian colour cinema then moved to Brighton. Turner shot the test films in 1902 but his pioneering work ended abruptly when he died suddenly of a heart attack.

Now the film has been restored by the National Media Museum and is being shown to audiences for the first time.

[Poly Hedra]

Love this kind of stuff, always fascinated looking at old film. The sound was made in the old days with a strip going down one side of the film strip that was made it dots, dashes and longer, fatter lines. The fatter the mark the deeper the sound. Love this subject. Here is one of the oldest films that in 1920 was the first film that was made that has influenced how we have watched films since.
This film inspired the film noir movement.

The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari
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And since this is appropriate here's my shorter version, put to electronic music as I love this film.
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[Roisin]

Wow, thanks for posting that! There's so much flow and continuity between each new scene that segues in from the one before it, it is indeed a revolutionary technique from earlier movies.

I like the digital music you composed in that 2nd video too for that movie clip! It adds more drama to it! thanks!

[Cidersomerset]

funny you posted this thread as a couple of days ago I posted one of the oldest scy -fy
mini movies from 1902 , I'll post the full post to show it in the context I posted it....

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Science fiction and science has gone hand in hand over the last aprox
150 years or so in the modern industrial age. The movies in the last
50 years or so from the Day The World Stood Still, which Dr,Stranges
said was put into the public psyche as a gauge after the radio drama
The War of the Worlds by Orson Wells caused a stir in the late 1930's.
It could be argued many movies & TV shows fall into this categories.
From Star Treks Gene Roddenberry who was reported to have
insider knowledge of ET's to Spielberg , Lucas and now JJ Abrahams.
This is may or may not be true but the alternate community is a
treasure trove of information to be made into a movie script , and
visa versa with some movies being sometimes taken literally by the
alternate forums.


Who knew the French went to the moon first....

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Uploaded on 24 Jul 2009


A Trip to the Moon (French: Le Voyage dans la lune) is a 1902 French
black and white silent science fiction film. It is loosely based on two
popular novels of the time: From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne
and The First Men in the Moon by H. G. Wells

The film was written and directed by Georges Méliès, assisted by his
brother Gaston. The film runs 14 minutes if projected at 16 frames per
second, which was the standard frame rate at the time the film was
produced. It was extremely popular at the time of its release and is
the best-known of the hundreds of fantasy films made by Méliès. A
Trip to the Moon is the first science fiction film, and utilizes innovative
animation and special effects, including the iconic shot of the rocketship
landing in the moon's eye

t was named one of the 100 greatest films of the 20th century by The Village Voice, ranking in

This Version features a Soundtrack by Erich Wolfgang Korngold & Laurence Rosenthal

Or a later coloured in version....I like the unruly wizards at the start...LOL

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It can be argued it goes both ways and Science , Science fiction and the medium
of the novel , movie , TV show and radio that is still popular drives each other
and the creative frequencies of the human being who bring these ideas . concepts
to life first in fiction than into reality......

This post is from the other thread....
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?77561-Jupiter-Ascending--New-Wachowski-Film-&p=924330#post924330

I saw the trailer for this new scy fy adventure and thought the concept very
familier..Usual rags to riches adviserial plot with a 'Crash. bang, wallop' for the
average viewer.But with so many recent Hollywood plots taken from alternate
sources which is a rich source and visa a versa since HG Wells and Jules Verne and
with the concept of Prometheus and the up coming Star Wars franchise , this seems
to be plugging into the Annunaki , Draco , greys meme among others......Shaun
Bean first sentence says it all. ( Will Sean Bean last the whole movie ? or die as usual ..LOL)....


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Jupiter Ascending is an upcoming space opera[4] film written, produced, and
directed by The Wachowskis. It marks their first return to original screenplays in
the science fiction genre since The Matrix trilogy.

The film is centered on Jupiter Jones (Mila Kunis), a down-on-her-luck janitor, and
Caine Wise (Channing Tatum), an interplanetary warrior who informs Jones that her
destiny extends beyond Earth. Supporting cast member Douglas Booth has
described the film's universe as a cross between The Matrix and Star Wars[5][6][7]
while Kunis named its underlying themes as indulgence[8] and consumption.[9][10][11]

The film is co-produced by Grant Hill, who acted as executive producer on The
Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions and as producer on V for Vendetta,
Speed Racer, Ninja Assassin and Cloud Atlas, making Jupiter Ascending his seventh
collaboration with the Wachowskis. Several more longstanding Wachowski
collaborators since the creation of The Matrix films have contributed to the picture,
[12] including production designer Hugh Bateup, visual effects supervisor Dan
Glass, visual effects designer John Gaeta, supervising sound editor Dane Davis and
costume designer Kym Barrett. Other notable past collaborators include Speed
Racer's composer Michael Giacchino, Cloud Atlas' director of photography John Toll
along with its editor Alexander Berner and hair and make-up designer Jeremy
Woodhead, who worked on both.



Plot[edit]

Unknown to Earth's residents, life on Earth and countless other planets has been seeded
[13] by families of alien royalty[14] for the purpose of harvesting the evolved living
creatures once they reach a "Darwinian state of perfection" to produce a type of youth
serum that allows them to live forever.[15] When the matriarch of the House of
Abrasax, the most powerful of the alien dynasties, dies[9] her children Balem (Eddie
Redmayne), Kalique (Tuppence Middleton), and Titus (Douglas Booth) are at war over
the inheritance. Eventually a new heir comes to their attention: Jupiter Jones (Mila
Kunis), an unsuspecting Earth-living, unlucky caretaker of other people's homes.[16]
Jupiter encounters Caine Wise (Channing Tatum), a genetically engineered
interplanetary warrior, who came to Earth to reveal that her genetic signature makes
Jones royalty and heir to Earth. Meanwhile, he has to protect her from Balem, who put a
bounty on her head and would rather harvest Earth than lose it to Jones.[17]


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_Ascending

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?79568-Jupiter-ascending-realy-near-to-reality-new-cinema-movie&p=929513#post929513