Every firm engaged in the fascinating business of making and reproducing cinematographic plays gives the most careful and painstaking attention to the first "performance" of a film.
Edison's idea for obtaining this is to make the phonographic and the cinematographic records at the same time in order to insure perfect accuracy of sound and appearance, and his experiments are meeting with success.
A few days after the Armistice, for instance, we were permitted to be present at a cinematographic entertainment.
We shall establish a vast library containing all the principal works, enriched withcinematographic albums.
Luckily a scholar in rummaging in a forgotten corner of the archives put his hand on a big collection of phonographic and cinematographic records which had been amassed by an ancient collector.
It is well known that, if our ordinary cinematographic pictures projected on a screen be viewed in a mirror to which we impart a rapid rotary movement, the successive pictures are dislocated and yield images in the field of the mirror.
A theatrical representation, if you like, or rather a cinematographic representation, for, on the whole, this was the impression that emerged most clearly from all the impressions received.
Of course I said to myself, if it was a cinematographic representation, if it was a film--and how could one doubt it?
They were too short, too desultory, let me say, and so bad from the strictly cinematographic point of view which the audience adopted, in spite of itself, that they excited irritation and annoyance rather than dread.
Then followed phenomena which are really inexplicable in the present state of our cinematographic resources.
Moreover, the specialists in cinematographic "faking," when questioned, frankly proclaim that their expert knowledge is at a loss and their technique at fault.
Undoubtedly the near future will see the foundation of national cinematographic laboratories in some form or other.
The upper line shows the palpitations occurring at irregular intervals, while the lower line is a cinematographic record of the heart sounds.
The whole operation of fitting the pieces of a machine together were filmed in this manner so as to give a complete cinematographic record of the assembling of a machine.
Ries, of Switzerland, whereby he secured a cinematographic record of the different phases of the union of the sperm and the egg, as well as the separation of the membrane and segmentation of the sea urchin.
This "chronoscope" as it was called, was placed near the object under cinematographic study, so that both the movement of the clock-hand and that of the object were photographed simultaneously.
In Germany the cinematographic laboratory might be attached to the world-famed testing laboratory at Charlottenburg.
It involves a combination of the electrical and cinematographic expert, since dependence has to be placed upon the electric spark for illumination, and also upon electricity for operating the mechanism.
So he called in Mr. Gilbreth and his cinematographic method.
In the process, language performs sometimes as language (dialogue among characters), other times as a pre-text for the visual cinematographic text.
Movement enhanced the realism of the image, captured on film to the extent of blurring the borderline between reality and the newly established convention of cinematographic expression.
