Response: Photography and Special Effects in Early Film

Throughout the short film there are times where some of the earlier practices of photography relate to that of the film.  For example, there are multiple scenes in the film.  Although the subjects in the film move, the camera doesn’t.  Melies also alters the film to enhance the special effects.  This is similar to when photographers would manipulate negatives of their film to produce the picture they wanted.  He also uses multiple exposures to produce his vision.  In earlier photography, there also wasn’t any color used.  In film, the same thing happened in the beginning.  Its different from photography because the subjects are moving.  The film was a bit fuzzy so it was hard to truly capture the essence of how much this changed the course of film.  Still, it was quite interesting to learn how it all happened.