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Re: Slo Mo History
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Eugene Walz <[log in to unmask]>
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Film and TV Studies Discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Tue, 6 Aug 1996 17:04:43 -0600
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>May I take the liberty of expanding this discussion just a bit and ask if
>anyone can come up with the EARLIEST examples of slow motion in narrative
>cinema?  In _A Certain Tendency of the Hollywood Cinema_, Robert Ray traces it
>back to _Zero For Conduct_ (1933), but I think we might also give Bunuel credit
>for a bit of slo mo in _Un Chien andalou_.  Anything else?
 
We should probably look at the Russians--especially Dziga Vertov whose Man
With a Movie Camera (1929) has many memorable instances of "camera tricks,"
including slow motion. He probably used slo mo in his earlier Kino-Pravda
stuff, but I do not have the references.
 
Gene Walz
Winnipeg, Manitoba
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