Firework displays, firework dramas and illuminations - precursors of cinema?
However one defines cinema, its ability to create a moving image by means of light and colour, its capacity for dramatic presentation and the typical experience of the audience in which a large number of people congregate in the dark and look up at a magnified image glowing in front of and above the...
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Blackwell Publishers Ltd.
1995
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| author | Watanabe-O'Kelly, H |
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| description | However one defines cinema, its ability to create a moving image by means of light and colour, its capacity for dramatic presentation and the typical experience of the audience in which a large number of people congregate in the dark and look up at a magnified image glowing in front of and above them must emerge as important characteristics. Since all these features are to be found in the firework display in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, they have as much claim to be cited as forerunners of cinema as the mechanical devices of the early nineteenth century more frequently mentioned. This contention is illustrated in what follows by means of German examples. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:69f8cd55-c38e-4a79-b9df-16bf4e7aea172022-03-26T18:54:28ZFirework displays, firework dramas and illuminations - precursors of cinema?Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:69f8cd55-c38e-4a79-b9df-16bf4e7aea17Visual art and representationEnglishOxford University Research Archive - ValetBlackwell Publishers Ltd.1995Watanabe-O'Kelly, HHowever one defines cinema, its ability to create a moving image by means of light and colour, its capacity for dramatic presentation and the typical experience of the audience in which a large number of people congregate in the dark and look up at a magnified image glowing in front of and above them must emerge as important characteristics. Since all these features are to be found in the firework display in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, they have as much claim to be cited as forerunners of cinema as the mechanical devices of the early nineteenth century more frequently mentioned. This contention is illustrated in what follows by means of German examples. |
| spellingShingle | Visual art and representation Watanabe-O'Kelly, H Firework displays, firework dramas and illuminations - precursors of cinema? |
| title | Firework displays, firework dramas and illuminations - precursors of cinema? |
| title_full | Firework displays, firework dramas and illuminations - precursors of cinema? |
| title_fullStr | Firework displays, firework dramas and illuminations - precursors of cinema? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Firework displays, firework dramas and illuminations - precursors of cinema? |
| title_short | Firework displays, firework dramas and illuminations - precursors of cinema? |
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