A Train Arrives at the Station, by the Lumier brothers, is one of the first files, and technically one of the first documentaries. In this week's introduction we talk about:
05:00 Bullet Time and the Matrix (another movie we will watch this semester) 06:28 The importance of frames-per-second 08:20 How projectors work 09:28 What is over-cranking? 13:00 No audio in early movies 13:10 Were audiences really terrified of this movie? 14:20 People afraid of new technology 16:40 Lumiers' movies tour the world 17:35 WWI footage remastered, colored, and with dialog (there's a link to this documentary in Bb)
