Week 7: Early Cinema

      The Purple Rose of Cairo, a film by Woody Allen, perfectly demonstrates the struggles of living in the 1930's, during The Great Depression. Although fiction, it signified the relevance of cinema during those hard times, how fantasy carried many through. His portrayal of life during the 1930's was certainly on the right track. Theater, although contrary to speculated beliefs, was booming in a sense. Comedies and films depicting life during the depression were incredibly popular. This success is coined to the late inventor, William Dickson.
      Direct employee of Thomas Edison and Scottish inventor, William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, invented the kinetograph in 1981, the first movie camera. This housed the opportunity to capture moving images on film, which then could be viewed at a later date. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetoscope
      The kinetoscope is what you would use to watch said films; unconventional to what we have today, it is most related to VR. Through a peephole located on the top of the device, you can view film gyrated at a speed to create the illusion of movement. Essentially, its the first version of a film reel, only exception would be that you would watch the movie from the film itself rather than through a projector. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetoscope