DIFFERENCE BETWEEN OLD AND NEW MOVIES

Difference between Old and New Movies

Difference between Old and New Movies

Introduction

This paper presents an analysis of the development of supernatural content in movies, from the time of inception of the medium to present. The decline in rational-based television shows is frequently discussed, but represents a much larger, more challenging project. The scope here was intentionally limited to theatrical films in order to create a more manageable set of content to examine. (Jackson, 1959)

Development of Movies and the Cinema

Let's shift gears a little bit and examine how movies came about. It's common knowledge that Thomas Edison invented movies in the mid 1890s, with his “Kinetograph” movie camera and “Kinetoscope” viewing device. There were earlier devices that could show a series of still pictures in rapid succession. Besides Edison's Kinetoscope, the next closest contending technology for movies was probably the “Mutoscope”, which used a series of photographs printed on cards mounted radially to a central core (like a large Rolodex). (Jones, 2005) The viewer looked into a small window and turned a crank to see a moving picture sequence of about a minute or less. These devices can sometimes still be found in penny arcades. By the time of Edison's invention, he had already become very successful as a result of his previous inventions. He had a large factory and hundreds of employees. It was actually an engineer working for Edison, William K. L. Dickson, who developed the important aspects of the 35mm motion picture film system, as well as Edison's Kinetoscope viewer device. It's important to realize that although the Edison/Dickson Kinetoscope used 35mm motion picture film, it was still somewhat of a novelty device. The film image was viewed by only one person at a time, looking at the picture through a magnifying lens, just as ...