Readings for Week 1: Open page for readings

For this week's readings, I want you to take a look at EARLYCINEMA.COM Links to an external site.. Specifically, I want you to look at the following pages (you can find links on the navigation bar on the left side of the page):

• Timeline -- look at the entire timeline
• Pioneers -- read the mini-bios for the the following people:
  Thomas Edison, W.K.L. Dickson, Lumiére Brothers, Georges Méliés, Edwin S. Porter
• Technology -- make yourself familiar with all the items in this section

From CINESCENE.COM, take a close look at the following extended look at the Lumiére Brothers Links to an external site..

From FILMSITE.ORG, read the following piece on Méliés' Voyage dans la Lune Links to an external site..

Also from FILMSITE.ORG, read the two-page piece on Porter's The Great Train Robbery. Links to an external site.