3. Lumiere brothers
Lumière brothers, French inventors and pioneer
manufacturers of photographic equipment who
devised an early motion-picture camera and
projector called the Cinematographer (“cinema”
is derived from this name).
4. What does the film show?The film is well structured and well directed this was filmed and edited really
well by the brothers especially with the equipment they used back in their
time
The film opens with two bandits breaking into a railroad telegraph office,
where they force the operator at gunpoint to have a train stopped and to
transmit orders for the engineer to fill the locomotive's tender at the station's
water tank. They then knock the operator out and tie him up. As the train
stops it is boarded by the bandits—now four. Two bandits enter an express
car, kill a messenger
5. Edit and shots
The edits and shots have transformed in the recent
years as from the olden days as Film editing is a
creative and technical part of the post-production
process of filmmaking in the film we witness that not
all scenes were cut with huge transition like we do
nowadays and was cut with razor blade really old
fashioned
7. What does the film show
This film shows everyone in the film working together to build a spaceship to get it ready to jet
off to the moon this is constructed by the people in the film. After a scene where the moon was
getting closer instead of the camera moving closer to the moon was being pushed closer this is
because they didn’t have any special affects in those days. A group of men travel to the moon by
being shot in a capsule from a giant cannon that they built to see whats going on
8. Gorge miles
Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès, known as Georges Méliès, was a French illusionist and film director
who led many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema.
10. Edwin porter
Edwin Stanton Porter was an American film pioneer, most famous as a producer, director, studio
manager and cinematographer with the Edison Manufacturing Company and the Famous Players
Film Company.
11. Continuity editing
Continuity editing is the process, in film and video creation, of combining more-or-less related
shots, or different components cut from a single shot, into a sequence so as to direct the
viewer's attention to a pre-existing consistency of story across both time and physical location.
In the great train robbery we see a lot of continuity editing at it looks like the whole is in one
massive scene that just has cuts with timing.
12. The movielioa
A device which reproduces the picture and sound of a film on a small scale, to allow checking and
editing.
