London's Trafalgar Square ( 1890 ) is a silent black and white short film shot by British film pioneers Wordsworth Donistorp and William Carr Croft .
| Trafalgar Square in London | |
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| London's Trafalgar Square | |
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| Genre | Documentary film |
| Producer | Wordsworth Donistorpe William Carr Croft |
| Producer | |
| Operator | Wordsworth Donistorpe William Carr Croft |
| Duration | 1 - 2 seconds |
| A country |  |
| Tongue | Silent movie |
| Year | 1890 |
| IMDb | ID 1202028 |
Story
The ten surviving shots captured the movement on Trafalgar Square - one of the most significant and easily recognizable places in London. In the center of the frame is the London National Gallery , and in the foreground carriages and pedestrians move.
History
Donistorp became interested in the idea of a cinematic film at the university at the time when physicist James Maxwell was his examiner in 1869, who improved zootrop in the same year.
On November 9, 1876, Donisthorp, together with Crofts, filed an application for a patent for the apparatus for “ shooting at a regular interval a series of photographic images in order to record changes that take place or to record a moving object ”. The device is called "Kinesigraph".
Literature
- Herbert S. Industry, Liberty and a Vision: Wordsworth Donisthorpe's Kinesigraph - London: The Projection Box, 1998.
- Cunningham G., Barber S. London Eyes: Reflections in Text and Image . - USA: Berghahn Books, 2007.P. 126-127.
Links
- YouTube video
- Photos of the Kinesigraph camcorder