Georges Melies - Master of Illusion: Crash Course Film History #4
After the Lumiere brothers and Thomas Edison got the ball rolling with Vaudeville acts and Actualites, the time was coming for movie magic and fiction to make an appearance. The time was coming...
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When’s the last time you heard a really good story? Maybe it was was a TV show that made you dream of discovering aliens as a kid, or a book that completely changed how you think about yourself. We’re all hardwired to make sense of the world by telling and being told stories, and at the turn of the 20th century, motion pictures were starting to do just that. At first, seeing any film was thrilling in and of itself, whether it was a Vaudeville performer flexing or a train pulling up to a station. But just five or six years into the history of film, audiences were looking for something more than just a technological marvel. So, filmmakers had to "try". Ugh... The world was primed for artists to prove this medium was more than just a passing f...
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When’s the last time you heard a really good story? Maybe it was was a TV show that made you dream of discovering aliens as a kid, or a book that completely changed how you think about yourself. We’re all hardwired to make sense of the world by telling and being told stories, and at the turn of the 20th century, motion pictures were starting to do just that. At first, seeing any film was thrilling in and of itself, whether it was a Vaudeville performer flexing or a train pulling up to a station. But just five or six years into the history of film, audiences were looking for something more than just a technological marvel. So, filmmakers had to "try". Ugh... The world was primed for artists to prove this medium was more than just a passing f...
