Part of Lesson Plan: Early Cinema: The History of the Motion Picture

Activity Overview / Details

Lecture/demonstration consists of a multimedia presentation of the vocabulary of  the mechanisms of early cinema as well as the origin of how it was created.  Throughout the presentation, the terms highlighted in “purple” are words students should be writing down. Following the lecture, the students will research visual representations of all these terms and will be expected to reference their notes for their research.  The multimedia presentation includes embedded video files/images that help explain/illustrate concepts throughout.

The attached presentation is 42 slides.