SHORT FORM ENTERTAINMENT INC
Video Bites
Video Bites are well produced short entertainments of a dramatic or comedic nature. The episodes are created with artist collaboration and directed toward singular or multiple episodes.
“AS THINGS CHANGE THINGS REMAIN THE SAME”
The recorded visual image has had many inventors, innovators, proponents and promoters all over the world for over a hundred years. The moving visual image has been part the human experience within the United States since the late 1800’s
We have the Thomas Alva Edison to thank for VIDEO BITES.
The Edison Company was responsible for promoting a machine called The Kinetoscope back in the 1890’s. This was a device that gave the impression of movement as an endless loop of film moved continuously over a light source with a rapid shutter. The individual viewer looked into the machine and voila! motion pictures . The Kinetoscope viewing devises were located in what they called Kinetoscope parlors. The parlors were movie arcades, the predecessor the motion picture theatre. Of course. there was a great of work and innovation by other individuals and companies leading up to that process.
Edison asked May Irwin and John C. Rice ( famous actors of their day ) to re-enact a kiss before Edison’s camera. The kiss itself was the final scene from a then hit Broadway play called the “Widow Jones”. The was put into a Kinetoscope and became of the first motion picture “Block Buster” hits of the day. However you still had to view “The Kiss” in the Kinetoscope one person at a time. No mass film entertainment yet ,
The “Kiss” was only about eighteen and one half seconds long and was filmed in 1896. It was the first kiss ever recorded to film. There were hundreds of these short entertainment produced. Americans and the world developed an appetite for the short form entertainment .
When we look at the whole idea of short visual entertainment, nothing has really changed in over a hundred years. The exception is the technology , the recording and delivery system .
Viewing today is usually still a singular experience, one viewer at a time. Replacing the Kinetoscope is the IPhone, laptop or other singular electronic devises. The video’s we are watching are quickly produced short entertainments. The subject matter is mostly involved with the human experience of interpersonal or natural events. This was the same subject matter viewed in the Kinetoscope over a hundred years ago .
“AS THINGS CHANGE THINGS REMAIN THE SAME”
The recorded visual image has had many inventors, innovators, proponents and promoters all over the world for over a hundred years. The moving visual image has been part the human experience within the United States since the late 1800’s
We have the Thomas Alva Edison to thank for VIDEO BITES.
The Edison Company was responsible for promoting a machine called The Kinetoscope back in the 1890’s. This was a device that gave the impression of movement as an endless loop of film moved continuously over a light source with a rapid shutter. The individual viewer looked into the machine and voila! motion pictures . The Kinetoscope viewing devises were located in what they called Kinetoscope parlors. The parlors were movie arcades, the predecessor the motion picture theatre. Of course. there was a great of work and innovation by other individuals and companies leading up to that process.
Edison asked May Irwin and John C. Rice ( famous actors of their day ) to re-enact a kiss before Edison’s camera. The kiss itself was the final scene from a then hit Broadway play called the “Widow Jones”. The was put into a Kinetoscope and became of the first motion picture “Block Buster” hits of the day. However you still had to view “The Kiss” in the Kinetoscope one person at a time. No mass film entertainment yet ,
The “Kiss” was only about eighteen and one half seconds long and was filmed in 1896. It was the first kiss ever recorded to film. There were hundreds of these short entertainment produced. Americans and the world developed an appetite for the short form entertainment .
When we look at the whole idea of short visual entertainment, nothing has really changed in over a hundred years. The exception is the technology , the recording and delivery system .
Viewing today is usually still a singular experience, one viewer at a time. Replacing the Kinetoscope is the IPhone, laptop or other singular electronic devises. The video’s we are watching are quickly produced short entertainments. The subject matter is mostly involved with the human experience of interpersonal or natural events. This was the same subject matter viewed in the Kinetoscope over a hundred years ago .