Response to:Photography and Special Effects in Early Film

The first science fiction film A Trip to the Moon used special effect in the early film. This film reminds me some practices of early photography. The whole film is black and white which like the early photographs. Its focus is kind of soft as similar as the photographs produced by the Calotype. However, I’m not sure the soft focus is due to the restoring from the original one. Like the early photographs, each scene used different theme for the setting. Compare the photographic camera with the film camera, photographic camera is in a small size and capable of moving around. However, photographic camera only takes one picture per shot, whereas the film camera is capable of taking more than one per second. And that’s why we can see the movement of objects in the film. Photographic camera and film camera are both easy overexposure. Special chemicals are required for developing images, and each image must be developed before an image can be seen