Slides used in a lecture on the history of early cinema in The Language of Film, a course in the Film Scoring major at Berklee College of Music, taught by Professor Lori Landay.

1. Early Cinema FS 251: The Language of Film Dr. Lori Landay

2. Before Moving Pictures. . . Photography 1839 Daguerrotype 1878 Muybridge’s Series Photography

3. The Beginnings of Cinema: Reality, Artifice, & Spectacle Muybridge, Edison, Lumière, Méliès 1893: Edison films kinetoscopes in his Black Maria 1895:LumièreBrothers, Le Cinématographe 1902: A Trip to the Moon, GeorgesMéliès 1903: The Great Train Robbery, Edwin S. Porter 1909: The “Biograph Girl” (Florence Lawrence) EARLY CINEMA TIMELINE

4. The Beginnings of Cinema: Edison Films Kinetographic record of sneeze (1894), WKL Dickson Palace of Electricity at the Paris Exposition(1900) Thomas A. Edison, Inc. Edison Animation (1917)

5. LeCinématographe Lumière Brothers Actualités Film projected on a screen, 1895

7. Fantasy: Méliès the Magician

8. 1903, The Great Train Robbery, Edwin S. Porter