We love the first special effects ever created for the cinema which all basically rely on double exposing the film to make movie magic happen.
Although this film must have been plenty scary at the dawn of cinema (remember folks at the time couldn’t comprehend motion pictures and supposedly in 1895 ran screaming from an on-screen locomotive coming toward the lens), and so might have initially screened better to Halloween audiences, BCP wishes you a Merry X-mas!!!
Produced by the English movie pioneer R.W. Paul, this version of ‘A Christmas Carol’ is the earliest surviving adaptation of Dickens’ work on film. The only known print, held by the BFI, is incomplete, but manages to tell enough of the story for it to be recognisable.
This first cinematic excursion into Dickens’ most popular tale was an ambitious undertaking at the time. Not only did it attempt to tell an 80 page story in five minutes, but it featured impressive trick effects, superimposing Marley’s face over the door knocker and the scenes from his youth over a black curtain in Scrooge’s bedroom. (Ewan Davidson)
Until such time when a certain bleeding-edge technology provides shallow depth-of-field no longer dependent on the optics of large pieces of glass in a tube, you can immediately graft said glass tubiness onto your wee iPhone using Photojojo’s iPhone SLR Mount.
Will this eventually allow for shallow depth-of-field without the need for large lenses full of pieces of glass? Tiny, smartphone lens images manipulated into focal lengths of various lenses. Obsoleting iPhone accessories like Olloclip and the SLR Mount.
Newton interprets each 2D layer as a rigid body in a real environment. Once simulation is completed, animation is recreated in After Effects with standard keyframes.
Czech artists Vladimir Turner and Ondřej Mladý made a video performance on the streets of Prague mounting a pico projector to the bike handlebars to display a DIY digital bike lane.
ot to be confused with the world’s smallest stop-motion animation character which happened to have been shot with a Nokia N8 smartphone, Dot is an eyeball attachment for the iPhone 4 that allows you to shoot video in 360 degree panoramas.
Flavorwire has desaturated and uploaded 10 films that they claim provide a better viewing experience in black and white.
The Oona looks like a useful tool for rigging up your iPhone in tight shooting situations or as a car mount.
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