Faretheewell Manovich

I have up to this point been really interested in the progression of the new technologies Manovich writes about, but in the last chapter, I feel like he had us hearkening back to the origins of cinema and the innovations that paved the way for today's digital cinema. One of the most powerful quotes from this section for me was his summation of animation. "Born from animation, cinema pushed animation to its periphery, only in the end to become one particular case of animation" (302). I think one of the overlying messages throughout the book has been that we cannot forget the trajectory that got us to where we are in the digital age. He illustrates so well the progression of technology and I think it is a useful tool in speculating where we might still go. I decided for my post this week to pay homage to the long forgotten technologies Manovich writes about in the earliest days of animation. Until reading Manovich, I had no idea that things like the magic lantern, phenakistiscope, and thaumatrope even existed. So,I took the time to look them up. I have linked them here for you to explore. I was also fascinated with the description Manovich gave of Tango. The only site I could find the whole film on was a Chinese fan site, and I didn't know how to embed the video, but I did find a really cool video of fragments of some of Rybczynski's films. It is pretty cool, and there is a fragment of Tango in there.