cinematograph

projector

Light-casting display device

• cameraImage capturing device
• lensLight-focusing curved glass
• reelWinding cylinder or dance

filmstrip · sprockets · aperture · shutter · gate · spool · celluloid · hand-cranked · arc-lamp · platter

exposure

State of being unprotected

• frameSupporting outer structure
• panningLateral camera traverse
• crankingRotating by handle

filming · recording · capture · take · footage · scene · composition · framing · close-up · montage

Nickelodeon

Children's entertainment channel

• silentProducing no sound
• black-and-whiteWithout color gradations
• newsreelsFilmed news for cinemas

talkies · intertitles · Chaplin · Keaton · flickering · pianist · vaudeville · shorts · slapstick · melodrama

Lumière

French term for light

• EdisonProlific American inventor
• pioneeringFirst to explore territory
• breakthroughSudden important advance

patent · prototype · novelty · revolutionary · trailblazing · 1890s · invention · apparatus · demonstration

screening

Evaluative selection process

• exhibitionPublic display of items
• auditoriumRoom for spectators
• showmanDramatic, attention-grabbing performer

traveling · fairground · audience · spectacle · entertainment · public · demonstration · curtain · darkness · beam

• Film Technologycamera, projector, film reel, film stock, kinetoscope
• Silent Filmsilent films, silent era, silent comedy, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton
• early cinemakinetoscope, bioscope, silent film, nickelodeon, celluloid
• French InventionsBraille, hot air balloon, pasteurization, stethoscope, metric system
• Victorian inventionstelegraph, steam engine, phonograph, typewriter, light bulb
• pre-cinemazoetrope, magic lantern, kinetoscope, phantasmagoria, flip book