The Sony Portapak was developed by Sony in 1967. It was a battery powered, analog video tape recording camera. One of the most innovative parts of the camera is that it could be carried and operated by a single person, as opposed to older video camera’s. These older camera’s even required an entire vehicle to…
Avant Garde Cinema is something I have learned little about. So, I thought I would check out two films by Edwin Porter, who was mentioned in this week’s chapter. When I typed in Porter’s name into YouTube, I got “Life of a Fireman” from 1903 for the Edison Manufacturing Company. It was an interesting silent…
Eadweard Muybridge’s La Nature: Studies in Animal Locomotion (1878) to is an interesting work of art. Muybridge had set up twelve cameras in a row, attached a piece of string to the shutter and ran it along the horse’s path. When the horse ran in front of the cameras, the shutters went off, creating an image at…