French film director, producer, and screenwriter Louis Jean Lumière died #OTD in 1948.
Alongside his brother Auguste, Louis is best known for inventing the Cinématographe, a motion picture camera, projector, and printer all in one. The Lumière brothers' work laid the foundation for the film industry and revolutionized visual storytelling.
TIL: The girl playing young Ellie Arroway in Contact (1997) is Jena Malone. She is also starring in Consecration (2023), and there's an homage to the famous mirror shot from Contact in that movie.
So, if you have the #Apple Pro Video Codecs are installed on your Mac, the integrated video player in #NeoFinder can play Sony MXF video files! Pretty cool!
I really love that soft cinematography from around 2017-2022. Kind of dark pastels or a really crunched colour space without losing detail. I don't know how to describe it really. Unfortunately we already seem to be moving on from it.
English photographer Eadweard Muybridge was born #OTD in 1830.
Muybridge is known for his pioneering chronophotography of animal locomotion between 1878 and 1886, which used multiple cameras to capture the different positions in a stride; and for his zoopraxiscope, a device for projecting painted motion pictures from glass discs that predated the flexible perforated film strip used in cinematography.
Did you know that the integrated video player in the Gallery View of #NeoFinder plays MOV, MP4 formats, but also many AVI, MT2, M2TS, M2V, TS, MPG and MPEG files?
It captures subtle details and perspectives from a time gone by and reminded me of my own childhood and I hope young people get to see it, for a glimpse at a world so different from today.
Watch how the Ichi the Killer director was able to use the iPhone 15 Pro to turn a manga into a 19-minute short film. An adaptation of a manga story by the popular Japanese manga artist Osamu Tezuka, "Midnight" tells a simple story really about a late-night taxi driver (played by Kento Kaku) who offers to help those who need a...
This beautifully shot psychological thriller is one of the Ur-texts of the serial killer genre. A critical scandal when it was released, Peeping Tom destroyed its director's career but has since been widely acknowledged as an influential masterpiece....
How Takashi Miike Shot His Latest Short Film on an iPhone 15 Pro (includes link to short film) (nofilmschool.com)
Watch how the Ichi the Killer director was able to use the iPhone 15 Pro to turn a manga into a 19-minute short film. An adaptation of a manga story by the popular Japanese manga artist Osamu Tezuka, "Midnight" tells a simple story really about a late-night taxi driver (played by Kento Kaku) who offers to help those who need a...
Old film you should watch: Peeping Tom (dir. Michael Powell, 1960) - TRAILER (m.youtube.com)
This beautifully shot psychological thriller is one of the Ur-texts of the serial killer genre. A critical scandal when it was released, Peeping Tom destroyed its director's career but has since been widely acknowledged as an influential masterpiece....