The Oscars and The George

The Oscars

Who would I nominate:
Well I only watched a handful of films last year from 2018, but I would pick Avengers Infinity war for how popular the film was and how many memes came from it. It was also a box office hit (Fun fact, I haven't actually seen the film)

Do I watch it:
No, I don't watch the Oscars because the result are the only thing I would care about, I can't just wait to see who won, and if they had an interesting speech, id just watch it on YouTube. I don't really keep track of the times these types of events are on.

https://www.theonion.com/s/oscars-2019

George Melies

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George was a a magician and owed his own theater in Paris, When he saw the Lumiere Cinematograph in 1895, He decided to add films to his programs. The Lumiere Cinematograph was a Camera, printer and projector made by August and Louis Lumiere which was first demonstrated in 1895.
The Lumiere brothers didn't want to sell their equipment so George had to get his equipment custom made.
Georges discovery of stop frame was accidentally discovered when he jammed and restarted the camera, he used it and exploited it to his advantaged to make Science fiction, Horror films and Fantasy films.
He was also a pioneer to:

The fade in-fade out affect: A traditional device consisting of a gradual change in the intestity of an image or sound,such as from a normally-lit scene to darkness (fade out, fade-to-black) or vice versa, from complete black to full exposure (fade in), or from silence to sound or vice versa; a 'fade in' is often at the beginning of a sequence, and a 'fade out' at the end of a sequence.

Dissolves: a transitional editing technique between two sequences, shots or scenes, in which the visible image of one shot or scene is gradually replaced, superimposed or blended (by an overlapping fade out or fade in and dissolve) with the image from another shot or scene; often used to suggest the passage of time and to transform one scene to the next.

Reverse motion: refers to a trick camera effect, created by running film backwards in the camera or during optical printing; aka reverse action

Cutting in the camera: to film each scene exactly in the order of the story line, such that little or no editing is necessary.

https://www.filmsite.org/filmterms.html

https://www.quora.com/What-does-it-mean-to-cut-in-camera

George Melies films were popular in France and were widely imitated, his films were also pirated and he received little financial benefit from his films. After 1905 his lack of income declined and his small studio struggled against all of the new films being made at that time. After 510 films, he stopped making films in 1912, and was deep in debt. He even grabbed the negatives of this films to melt them for their silver content. He died in 1938 working at his wifes candy and toy shop.

Many of his films survived today only through the illegal copies that bankrupted him.

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His techniques would of changed how films were made. At the time most of the films used cuts as a main source of transition, and most layered film footage would have only been used for backgrounds, not for practical effects. Blending probably was hardly used as at the time the technology wasn't designed to blend.

I am confident to say that All of the films from my top 10 list have been affected in some way or another by George Melies, of course most to all the films would have been edited digitally to make the same affect, but much more smoother. I think the movie with the most practical and physical transitions would of been Star Wars: A New Hope.