vendredi 13 juin 2008
" JE VOUS AIME " GEORGES DEMENY
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1hr85_scientific-cinema-demini
VOIR " JE VOUS AIME " de GEORGES DEMENY
vendredi 23 mai 2008
GEORGES DEMENY EXPOSITION DOORS STUDIO GALLERY
http://web.mac.com/dangelo.benoit/Site/DEMENY.html
Située en plein coeur du Marais, la Door Studios Gallery présente, du 14 mai au 2 juin 2008, une exposition inédite de 60 images de Georges Demeny, l’un des pères de la chronophotographie,en partenariat avec l’INSEP (Institut National des Sports et la Fondation de la Française des Jeux.
Au coeur d’un espace dédié à la création, entre galerie d’art et studio photo, la Door Studios Gallery retrace le parcours de l’un des grands oubliés de l’histoire de l’image de la fin du XIXe siècle.
Georges Demeny (1850-1917) s’est intéressé dès 1880 aux recherches sur les mouvements musculaires
Avec Etienne-Jules Marey, il met au point le procédé de chronophotographie, permettant de fixer, à partir d’un point de vue unique et à des intervalles de temps égaux, les diverses phases du mouvement d’un sujet sur un fond noir.
La recherche scientifique sur le mouvement se développe au XIXe siècle, grâce aux expériences de l’inventeur britannique Edward James Muybridge, pionnier de la photographie animée. Etienne-Jules Marey, médecin, physiologiste et inventeur français, accompagné de Georges Demeny l’un de ses anciens élèves devenu collaborateur, a développé ces recherches avec des sportifs. La chronophotographie nous plonge dans l’univers fascinant de l’étude du corps humain en pleine action, constituant ainsi une véritable encyclopédie visuelle de la mécanique des corps. Le regard évolue alors au coeur d’une “animation figée”, entre accomplissement sportif et beauté graphique.
Cette exposition illustre ces recherches qui forment un riche patrimoine unique et précieux, permettant d’établir un lien entre photographie et cinéma. Une réplique du phonoscope créé par Demeny , ainsi qu’une animation filmée et projetée sur les murs de la galerie seront présentées.
A l’heure du tout numérique et de l’accélération des images au cinéma, l’exposition constitue ”un retour aux sources. Une manière de ne pas oublier un maillon important de la photographie et du cinéma. Georges Demeny a sa place dans l’histoire et cette exposition la lui rend. ces photos font partie de l’imaginaire visuel de tous les Français.
(...) elles correspondent également à l’engouement actuel pour la photographie ancienne.
”Patrick Diquet
Responsable de l’iconothèque de l’INSEP
"JE VOUS AIME" http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1hr85_scientific-cinema-demini-marey_shortfilms
samedi 17 mai 2008
GEORGES DEMENY EXPOSITION
As attests it the catalogs concervés by the Gaumont Museum, one can speak about several hundreds of phonoscenes by Alice Guy Blache produced about 1907. But only one hundred reached us.
Synchronism between the image (sequence shot turned under the conditions of the playback) and the sound resulting from cylinders then of discs was far from being as bad as one tends to believe it. As opposed to what often lets hear popularization, the existence of phonoscenes attests that the usual idea of " cinema muet" is to be called into question.
"LE CINEMA PREMIER ALICE GUY" SOLAX Paramount gaumont
mercredi 14 mai 2008
mercredi 16 avril 2008
lundi 31 mars 2008
Alice Guy Rencontre Georges Demeny
"JE VOUS AIME"
CHONOPHOTOGRAPHIE DE LA PAROLE
PAR GEORGES DEMENY 1891
BEAUME MUSEE E.J. MAREY
Je vous aime chronophotographie de la parole par Georges Demeny, 1891 Beaune, Musée E.J.Marey |
1850-1917)
Georges Demenÿ Georges Demeny
French inventor, chronophotgrapher, filmmaker and gymnast
Georges Demenÿ was born at Douai in 1850. In 1874, after studying at Douai and Lille, he reached Paris and enrolled in the physiology course of E-J. Marey, quickly becoming one of the scientist's closest associates. Together they established a programme of research which was to lead to the creation of the 'Station Physiologique', which opened in 1882 in the Bois de Boulogne. Demenÿ was Marey's assistant there, and the two researchers produced a considerable body of work, photographing human and animal movement using sequential photography, that is, chronophotography (a camera with fixed plate, and later moving plate, 1882-1888). The 'film' career of Marey and Demenÿ really began in 1888 when Marey's camera recorded on a sensitive strip several series of images. From 1890 they were using celluloid film. Several hundred filmstrips (90 mm wide, about 1.20 metres long) were made at the Station, at Joinville and at Naples (where Marey, often away from Paris, owned a house). On 3 March 1892, Demenÿ filed a patent for the Phonoscope, an apparatus for glass discs (42 cm diameter) with a series of chronophotographic images on their circumference which could be projected using a powerful Molteni lantern. After the Phonoscope was successfully presented at the Exposition Internationale de Photographie de Paris (1892), Demenÿ dreamed of commercialising chronophotography, and pushed Marey to order the manufacture of six cameras intended for sale. Relations between them soured when Demenÿ formed, in December 1892, the Société de Phonoscope. Marey refused to co-operate in this enterprise, so Demenÿ devised his own camera, inventing the 'beater' mechanism - used in many later projectors - to move the film.
In 1894 Demenÿ was dismissed from the Station Physiologique. He installed himself at Levallois-Perret, rue Chaptal, and made about a hundred very diverse Phonoscope scenes: Danseuse de French-Cancan, Premiers pas de Bébé, and Passage du Train. In December 1894, Louis Lumière visited Demenÿ who showed him a design of a cam-and-claw mechanism for moving film - the fascinating sketches for which have been rediscovered recently - but Lumière did not seem interested. On 22 August 1895 Demenÿ and sleeping partner LG signed their first contract, and in November the Phonoscope (renamed Bioscope) was offered for sale. Early in 1896, the Biographe camera using 60 mm unperforated film was also on offer. Projection by means of Phonoscope/Bioscope discs offered a very brief entertainment. The Biographe camera was already archaic in 1896, in contrast to those of Lumière or de Bedts, and Demenÿ's machines were a financial failure. However, LG exploited Demenÿ's principle of the beater movement with great success, and Demenÿ entrused to him the financial battle of cinematography, returning to his first passion, gymnastics. In 1909 he published a brochure, Les Origins du cinématographe, describing in a clumsy fashion his part in the invention of cinema, but his claims were always rejected by the 'Lumieristes' and the friends of Marey. Only today is it possible to understand the pioneer role played by Demenÿ in the commercialisation of chronophotography. From 1892 his 'movies' had a wide variety of subject, the glowing and lively images of the Phonoscope already representing the true concept of cinema.