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Fig 1.1 auguste and Louis Lumiere, circa 1895.
Their work was amazing to the French and, ultimately, international
audiences of the late 1890s. Everyday scenes of that era were well recorded
and documented the factories and streets of Lyon, France. Once audiences
became accustom to the novelty of moving images, the experimentation
began. Several artists took the filmmaking technique much farther than
Auguste and Louis Lumiere, the most significant of which was Georges Melies.
Fig 1.2 georges Melies circa 1890.
The Parisian-born Melies was often referred to as the Cinemagician . His work
with film was influenced by his experience as a stage magician. Melies learned
how to use multiple exposures, dissolves, time-lapse photography, editing
techniques, and substitution photography, in which the camera is stopped
and the subject changed, to create a magical effect. These silent films created
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