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A Motion Picture is created by photographing actual scenes with a motion picture camera; by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques; by means of CGI and computer animation; or by a combination of some or all of these techniques and other visual effects. The process of filmmaking is both an art and an industry.
French archaeologist and filmmaker, Marc Azema, has come up with a novel theory. Maybe the earliest cave paintings, created some 30,000 years ago at sites like Chauvet, weren’t static creations. Maybe they were meant to show movement, to tell a sequential story. Maybe the cave paintings in France and Spain gave us our first animations, a prehistoric kind of cinema. The video above takes cave paintings from Lascaux, Les Trois-Frères, Chauvet and elsewhere, and shows how the images, if arranged sequentially, and viewed by flickering fire light, actually depicted motion.
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Robert Flaherty
Robert Flaherty was an American filmmaker who directed and produced the first commercially successful feature length documentary film. In 1913, on his expedition to prospect the Belcher Islands, his boss, Sir William Mackenzie, suggested that he take a motion picture camera along. Flaherty brought with him a Bell and Howell hand cranked motion picture camera. He was particularly intrigued by the life of the Inuit people, and spent so much time filming them that he had begun to neglect his real work. When Flaherty returned to Toronto with 30,000 feet of film, the nitrate film stock was ignited in a fire started from his cigarette, in his editing room. His film was destroyed and he received burns on his hands. Although his editing print was saved and shown several times, Flaherty wasn't satisfied with the results. Flaherty was determined to make a new film, one following a life of a typical Inuit and his family. In 1920, Flaherty secured funds from Revillon Frères, a French fur trade company to shoot what was to become Nanook of the North. On the 15th of August, 1920 Flaherty arrived in Port Harrison, Quebec to shoot his film. With him he took two Akeley motion-picture cameras which the Inuit referred to as "the aggie". Flaherty also brought full developing, printing and projection equipment to show the Inuit his film, while he was still in the process of filming. Flaherty lived in an attached cabin to the Revillon Frères trading post.
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Benjamin Jaffe Gallery
Chicago, IL
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