NOW:
2010. WELCOME TO PINE POINT
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSHPe_dbGtU[/youtube]
2011. BEYOND 9/11
THEN:
1898. A.C. HADDON. TORRES STRAIT ISLAND FILM and SOUND RECORDINGS
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/46901929[/vimeo]
Click here to listen to Haddon’s Recorded Sounds
Cambridge anthropologist A.C. Haddon filmed and recorded Australia’s Torres Strait Islanders in 1898. In 1906, he organized a primitive sync-sound screening where he played the Torres Strait wax cylinder sound recordings in tandem with the film footage.
1890s. LUMIERE BROTHERS AND PATHE BROTHERS
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoEpk1itz2Y[/youtube]
Débarquement du congrès des photographes à Lyon, 1895
By the Lumiere Bros.
In 1902, the Société Pathé Frères– a French gramophone company– acquired the Lumiere film camera patents. Pathé used the Lumiere patents to become one of the largest media equipment and production companies in the world.
1936-1951. THE FILM AND PHOTO LEAGUE
Butterfly Boy, 1949
Photograph by Jerome Liebling
Courtesy of the Columbus Museum of Art
Film and Photo League photographers and filmmakers documented urban poverty in an effort to improve Americans’ living and working conditions.