Dear Visual Media enthusiast,
Lecture:
'From the Camera Obscura to Television'
Lecture on Early Visual Media for audiovisual conference programs.
For education purposes, a lecture on the Early Visual Media subject is
available on-demand / invitation.
For Museums, Universities, Art schools, Conventions, Conferences, Courses,
Film festivals, Collector meetings, etc.
Learning about the Visual Media: Pre-Cinema, Photography, Film, Television
+ Related fields.
Presented by <mailto:[log in to unmask]: Visual Media,
Pre-Cinema and Early Photography> Thomas Weynants, webmaster of Early
Visual Media.
http://www.visual-media.eu/lectures.html
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Lectures are done in English or Dutch and runs for at least 90 minutes,
illustrated with 150 slides or more. (35mm. dia's)
Title of lecture: 'From the Camera Obscura to Television'
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Content of lecture:
The lecture explains the history and use of popular optical, kenitic and
time-based media entertainments and toys before the dawn of cinema but does
include the Early History of Television.
Special attention is given on the search into animated images in different
media.
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Optical toys such as Magic Lanterns & slides, Peepshow boxes &
views, Anamorphoses, Phenakistiscopes, Choreutoscopes, Anorthoscopes, other
kinetic toys etc.
Special subjects:
- Phantasmagoria or Death in the projected image before the invention of
cinema.
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Photography: Forerunners, beginnings and early processes:
Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes, Tintypes, etc.
Special Subjects:
- Ghost's, Post-Mortem, Diableries or different aspects of Death in
Photography.
- Origins of Physical Culture in France seen in stereo photographs.
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Mechanical Television: Forerunners and early broadcasting by
Mechanical Television prior to Electronic Television.
Special attention can be given on collections available on location.
(please inform)
Best wishes,
Thomas
http://www.visual-media.eu/
Thomas Weynants
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http://www.visual-media.be/
Fantasmagore - Photographer - Collector
Member of "The Magic Lantern Society of Great-Britain"
GSM: +32 473 67 82 72
GOOGLE group about:
Early Visual & Time-Based Media Techniques
http://groups.google.com/group/visual-media
- Pre-Cinema: Optical Toys, Magic Lanterns, etc.
- Phantasmagoria (Death in pre-film)
- Conjuring Arts, Physique Amusante & Illusions
- 19th.Century Photography
- Early Film & Animation Film
- Mechanical Television before 1935
Don't forget the Autumn meeting: 16 November, Natural History Museum, London
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