Old Films

We got to see many short films from the begining of the creation of the movie busness and are listed below:
The Eddison Kinetiscope: The Kiss, Serpentine dancer, The Srong Man
These films usualy have a single sourse of light, its usualy topical or a hight front light. This light is interesting because it is usualy sharp focused producing strong shadows. All these movies have been filmed in a studio as such there is no natural light sources.
Lumier's Cinomatagraph: Dragoons crossing, Arival of the Train, Babys Lunch.
Lumier uses natural light for the most part of his films with a great use of shadows in his exterior shots, like the side of the train as it pulls into the station. The Babys lunch is slighty different as it does not have a strong light sourse like Dragoons crossing or the arival of the train. Here the film is more grey than stark black and white shapes, it possably could have been a cloudy day or filmed in the shade.
George Mendez: Trip To the Moon (1903)
This film uses set lighting, ususaly this is frontal or top heavy but usualy with a good wash of light all over his set. His use of moving, flying and lifting set peices is also quite good as he brings elements of the theatre to the movies.
Edwin S Porter: The Great Train Robbery (1903)
The use of video overlay in this movie is cool, along with the paning of the the camera as one of the first pans in movies is also quite amusing, coupled with the moving camera work on the train. The poor colour overlay is also interesting as it adds some subtractive use of light into the mix rather than the plain grey scale of movies from that time.
Touch of Evil: (19??)
This movie uses large amount of artifical lighting from practical lights like street lamps to the behind scenes uses of large studio lighting. The use of a single shot is also is interesting as this would have taken many rehersals to achevie.