Erkki huhtamo biography of abraham lincoln

Erkki Huhtamo

In his classic expose of the "archaelogy of the cinema" C.W.

Ceram puts the prehistory of the motion pictures straight. He states promptly: "Knowledge of automatons, or of clockwork toys, played no part in the story of cinematography, nor is there any link between it and the production of animated 'scenes'.

Erkki huhtamo biography of abraham lincoln

We can therefore omit plays, the baroque automatons, and the marionette theatre. Even the 'deviltries' of Porta, produced with the camera obscura, the phantasmagorias of Robertson, the 'dissolving views' of Child, are not to the point.

All these discoveries did not lead to the first genuine moving picture sequence."[1] In another paragraph, Ceram elaborates on his position: "What matters in history is not whether certain chance discoveries take place, but whether they take effect."[2]

Curiously, the profuse illustrations of the English language edition (1965)