my journey towards a BA in photography
The Birth of a Nation (1915) Dir: D.W. Griffiths Synopsis The Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposing armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to…
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The films of the Spanish – American War. Interestingly the Spanish-American War was the first war to be covered by cinema cameras, and there is an extensive library of footage shot from the available at the Libriary of Congress (https://www.loc.gov/collections/spanish-american-war-in-motion-pictures/about-this-collection/)….
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UnMediated Footage The films of the Lumiere brothers were groundbreaking in their time; they were recording for the first time the daily lives of the people – as we discussed in exercise 3.1 the real actuality films. They consisted of…
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What is Actuality? In “Introduction to Film Studies” – Jill Nelmes Actuality is defined as: “Derived from the French term actualite given to the short nonfictional films made in the early period (1895 -1906 or so). These films often consisted…
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