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Cinematic techniques

  • StoryboardIn the early 1930s, Walt Disney Productions developed the storyboard process as it is known today. Before this moment, most filmmakers shot their films like…
  • Visual effectsIn 1857, Oscar Rejlander created the world's first special effects image by combining different sections of 32 negatives into a single picture.
  • Soviet montage theoryIn 1923, Sergei Eisenstein published an essay titled "The Montage of Attractions" that declared editing to be the very nerve of cinema.
  • Stop motionIn 1849, Joseph Plateau published a note about improvements for his Fantascope. This device could be viewed with both eyes by several people at the same time.
  • Post-productionA studio video editing suite from the early 1990s shows a world where film editors physically cut and spliced strips of celluloid.
  • Kino-EyeIn the early 1920s, cinema emerged as a central medium of artistic expression in the Soviet Union. Revolutionary leaders like Lenin and Trotsky celebrated…