Antique Zoetrope
Old Movie Memorabilia With Wireless Internet by Jon Jacobson
Few industries are as fascinating as the film industry, which in the little over 100 years of its existence has produced a great deal of significant films, personalities, and weird stories. And as a result of all this attention, there are a great deal of movie buffs who love to look for collectibles produced by the movie industry. There are a number of ways to look for great collectibles from old movies, and there’s no better way to begin than by using your wireless internet connection. Here are some of the most popular movie collector’s items out there.
First, one of the great items to collect are movie posters. Before you begin with them, it helps to inform yourself a bit on the history of movie posters and how they work. The custom for each movie to have its own poster traces back almost to the beginning of the making of motion pictures. Posters, placards, and other publicity for movies were directed by a dedicated agency that did nothing other than run posters, the National Screen Service. It was most common for them to feature drawings of scenes taken from the movie, in addition to actors, directors, and key grip. Conversely, it was relatively rare to use stills from the movie since doing so at the time was a long and involved process. This system for poster production stayed mostly the same all the way up until the 80s, at which time the NSS was discontinued and the studios themselves began to make the posters themselves. Today, poster seekers looking for good reproductions should have no trouble thanks to wireless internet, but finding originals can take a bit more time and effort.
When looking for movie related material, one other thing to check for is old film recording equipment. The history of recording moving images goes back to many gimmicky devices, starting with the “magic lantern” and the zoetrope, which created the illusion of a moving image. Edison was the first to come up with a device that recorded a stream of images from a single camera, and soon after there came a wave of short clips using this device, many of which still can be found today with wireless internet. However, these films could not have sound, and it took until the late 1920s to introduce film recording techniques that could play back sounds. The next major breakthrough was television, which came to popularity in the 1950s and required its own special recording equipment. At the same time, improved film camera techniques made it possible for many families to go out and buy “super 8″ film cameras. Following these developments, the next major breakthrough was the digitization of films, which first appeared in the early 80s with laserdiscs and eventually spread to all aspects of filmmaking, including cameras and the editing process. By checking your wireless internet connection, you can look all the way back through the history of film and find antiques that appeal to you from any era.
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antique zoetrope at the Musee Mecanique
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Uncle Milton Uncle Milton Star Wars Science Holographic Animation Lab $11.64 Make your favorite Star Wars: The Clone Wars characters come to life with the Holographic Animation Lab. Learn about animation, persistence of vision and the principles of a zoetrope, an invention that is nearly 2,000 years old. The Animation Lab comes with 10 animation disks – one side has characters from The Clone Wars and the other side is blank so you can create your own moving pictures!… |
