recordings And Recording—An Historic AccountHere, Electricka and her Muses
present an account of the history of recordings and recording.
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About the account
The Account of the history of recordings and recording is a concise
account of the the nexus of recordings, recording, and playback. All
recording media are examined because all the arts are affected by and affect
every medium.
This history treats many facets of recording and the recording industry,
from technology to science to engineering; from scientists and technologists
to businessmen; from research and scientific institutions to corporations to
commercial outlets; and from to performers and performances to venues and the public. Because they are so tightly interwoven, knowledge of
the interactions among these elements is crucial to an understanding how events in the
field of recording have unfolded.
The Account is contained in The Table Of Recording History. The Table
tells any manner of fascinating stories. Consult it to see how recording
began, progressed, and burgeoned into a major industry; see the players;
find the breakthroughs.
Since all the arts are involved, the Table is a
joint effort by Electricka and all her cohorts. If an event has been
submitted by a visitor to Electricka's web site, credit goes to the
contributor.
The Account is presented in chronological order, event-by-event, from the
inception of recording to modern times. Why take an event-by-event approach?
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how to use the Table
Electricka is pleased to be able to present the Account in the form of an
automated table. Each entry in the table is a description of the major
recordings and recording events that have occurred in a specific time
period. Each row in the table contains a description of an event or group of
events. Columns describe events; they indicate the contributors,
personalities, and organizations that are involved and other pertinent
information.
With the aid of the table's automated facilities, you can use keywords to conveniently search entries for occurrences of text strings that
represent and express your interests. For example, entering the
text Edison in the SEARCH box at the top of The History Of Recording
Table will produce a
chronological list of every record or recording event in the Account in which
the man Edison is
cited. The entire Table or the results of a search may be sorted and
otherwise arranged for presentation on your monitor screen; or they may be
printed.
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At present, this Account, which is contained in The Table Of Recording
History, is primarily limited to one medium (sound); it spans the period
that ranges from the invention of the phonograph in 1887 through 1950.
The Muses plan to expand the scope of this list's subject matter until it
includes all media, recording types, and time periods. They ask that you
bear with them while they get this done.
They suggest that you return to the Table from time
to time to see updates and track progress.
send the muses A recording
event
With the rapid advances occurring in recording technology
and recordings, so much is happening so fast, collecting and assembling
information on past and present developments has become a daunting task.
The Muses invite you to help them achieve their goal of expanding the
Account—to play an active part in
achieving this goal—by
sending them a contribution in the form of an
event they can add to The Table Of Recording History.
Know an event in the history of recording that can be
published in this historic Account? To encourage you to send
your event, Electricka
has declared this feature an Arts Information feature.
To see how to send an event,
explore the guidelines for contributors now.
- To learn more or to submit an Account of your own see the page called
Guidelines For Arts Information Contributors—An
Account Of The History
Of Records & Recording:
click here.
For more information about this and other Arts
Information features, visit
the Arts Information page at this web site:
- Click the words About Arts Information in the
Arts Information
image at the right side of this page or
click here.
Welcome To The Muse Of Film
As a field of endeavor and a genre of art and entertainment,
film still takes its name from this physical medium. But film is much more
than a strip of cellulose. Film is also a means of communication between people.
It's an industry, an art form, a genre, and a means of enlightenment
and entertainment. When it comes to the arts, it's not the images and audio deposited on film that count.
The Muse Of Film defines film
broadly, as a series of moving images. This definition is meant to be broad,
but at a minimum includes film as an industry—its
productions, operations, etc.—and most important
for the arts, it includes motion pictures as
a genre of art and entertainment.
glossary of film terminology
The Muse Of Film is pleased to offer you a glossary of terms about movie
industry films and technology.
Birth of the film industry—the advent of motion
pictures
Devices that can represent moving images have been around for a long time—since
late in the second century of the common era, as a matter of fact; but the
images they displayed could only be hand-drawn and the duration of
presentation was measured in seconds. They possessed many other drawbacks and
their representations were crude in the extreme.
Mankind had to wait sixteen more centuries before it
became possible to capture, save, and see realistic images of actual things
in motion. In its social consequences, this 16-century wait is on a par with
the 16 centuries man had to wait to fly.
- Explore the birth of the motion picture industry:
click here.
The Advent of motion pictures
Devices that can represent moving images have been around for a long time—since
late in the second century of the common era, as a matter of fact; but the
images they displayed could only be hand-drawn and the duration of
presentation was measured in seconds. They possessed many other drawbacks and
their representations were crude in the extreme.
- Explore how and where motion pictures began and where they are today.
See a short review of the people who brought movies to us and their place
in the history of recording at Electricka's feature titled The Advent Of
Motion Pictures:
click here.
The History of recording
Today, movies are a field in which recording technology is preeminent.
Film that records images, film that moves, digital recording, 3-D film, 3-D
sound, color, animation, computer-generated people, figures, and objects,
and a host of other incredible developments that too many of us take
for granted. None of these advances would have
been possible without contributions from a host of brilliant inventors
People like Gutenberg, Niépce, Daguerre, Edison, and the Lumière brothers—they
stood on the shoulders of the giants who went before them.
Even so basic a development as pictures that move
would not exist today without a series of technological advances that
began in the 14th century, lasted 1600 years, and is still going on.
- See how motion pictures evolved out of previous inventions and
came to be. Explore the history of recording and the major technical
advances that led to today's movies. Visit Electricka's feature titled
About The History Of Recordings And Recording:
click here.
prizes for film
Film awards play a big part in the film industry, world wide. For more
than a century they have helped shape the nature of movies and improve their
quality (or degrade their quality, if you are so inclined). They have had a
major impact on the artistic and financial structure of the industry and the
climate in which films are made.
- Join The Muse Of Film in exploring prizes for films and achievements
in film:
click here.
Welcome To Technical Aspects Of Film
Film technology is not anywhere as complex, esoteric, or as hard to comprehend as the LHC particle accelerator at SLAC. The technical challenges films present are
not nearly as difficult or costly to overcome. But neither are they easy or
something to ignore.
In this feature, The Muse Of Film explores some of the challenges that film
technology has overcome and has yet to overcome. The Muse is not just
interested in examining the techniques and technologies involved in making
entertainment flicks. The Muse addresses the technology of film in all its
fields and in all its aspects, from still photography to high tech moving
pictures; from high speed photography to underwater photography; from
exposing and developing film to archiving it.
film clips from the muse of film
Because of their excellence and applicability to arts other than film,
Electricka and her muses have requested permission from The Muse Of Film to
insert some of The Muse's film clips in their own features. Fortunately for
us, The Muse Of
Film has graciously given them blanket consent to do so.
- View film clips used by Electricka's muses at the feature titled Film
Clips From The Muse Of Film:
click
here.
the past repeats...or does it?
According to popular opinion, silent motion picture camera technology was developed by a number of
investigators in France and the United States circa mid-to-late 19th
century and that sound was added in the first half of the 20th century.
Not necessarily so.
Surprisingly,
scholarly research has established that the feat of integrating sound and
moving images in story-telling may have been accomplished
long before The Jazz Singer.
How old are
the movies, really? Find out. Take the following exploration in two steps:
- First, explore Richard Attenborough's recount of what may actually be
the very first moving picture stories, stories that were told tens of
thousands of years ago:
click here.
- Next, compare Attenborough's account of how motion picture
story-telling actually may have started with the modern version. Choose one
or both of these modern versions to explore how we got where we are today:
- Briefly explore Electricka's story of how moving pictures got started
at the feature titled about The Advent Of Motion Pictures:
click here.
- Or, explore the The Muse Of Film's longer exploration of how movies
got started in the 19th century:
click here.
about across the muses
Today In The Arts is an Across The Muses feature.
- Explore other Across The Muses features. Learn more about them. Visit Electricka's page
called Welcome To Across The Muses:
click here.
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