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| Literally, "writing with light"; technically, the recording of static images though a chemical interaction caused by light rays striking a sensitized surface. |
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| Literally, "dark chamber." A box (or room in which a viewer stands); light entering (originally from a tiny hole, later through a lens) on one side of the box ( or room) projects an image from the outside onto the opposite side or wall. |
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| A negative photographic image on transparent material that makes possible the reproduction of the image. |
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| The use of a series of still photographs to record the phases of an action, although the actions within the images do not move. |
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| Also known as chronophotoraphic gun. A cylinder-shaped camera that creates exposures automatically, at short intervals, on different segments of a revolving plate. |
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| An early movie projector. |
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| An early device for exhibiting moving pictures-a revolving disk with photographs arranged around the center. |
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| The first motion picture camera. |
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| A peephole viewer, an early motion-picture device. |
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| A form of the chronophotgrahic gun (see Revolver photographique)-a single, portable camera capable of taking twelve continuous images. |
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| The first movie studio-a crude, hot cramped shack in which Thomas Edison and his staff began making movies. |
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| stop-motion cinematography |
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| A technique that allows the camera operator to stop and start the camera in order to facilitate changing the subject while the camera is not shooting. |
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