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A Brief History of the Camera Flash, From Explosive Powder to LED Lights
Since the first days of photography, a little extra light was needed to get a proper exposure – check out these different strategies used to illuminate the subject, if only for a brief second. The...
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The History of Horror and Why We’re Attracted to Scary Movies
Before you settle in for a Halloween Movie Night – check out our recap of the history of Horror and dive into some theories on why we’re attracted to movies that go bump in the night.
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Why We need to Study the Renaissance
The Renaissance is a historical period with some important lessons to teach us about how to improve the world today. We need to study it not for its own sake, but for the sake of our collective futures.
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The 116 images NASA wants aliens to see
Here are all the photos flying through interstellar space on Voyager’s Golden Record. When Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 launched into space in 1977, their mission was to explore the outer solar system, and...
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Holy Cow, Home Alone Is 25!
An oral history of one of the most beloved Christmas comedies ever made. On August 8, 1989, my father, John Hughes, jotted down in a notebook a movie idea, born of traveler’s anxiety, that occurred to...
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A Private Tour Of The Kodak Technology Vault
Chris Marquardt gets a private tour at the Kodak Technology vault and Todd Gustavson, the technical curator takes him on a trip through the history of photography, from the Daguerrotypie to digital...
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The Weird Story of Eadweard Muybridge’s Nude Motion Studies
Eadweard Muybridge was fascinating, completely bizarre, and undoubtedly a genius. This is how he photographed incredible subjects in all different conditions.
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The Science and History of Lenses – A FilmmakerIQ Lesson
No camera could be complete without a lens – the glass technology that brings the world into focus. Dive into the history of the lens from it’s early beginning as a fire starting tool to the plethora...
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How Old is the Oldest Fairy Tale?
We know folklore goes back hundreds of years, but thanks to a new study using biological research methods, we now know it’s even older than that.
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Marvel at the Cutting Edge of Computer Graphics and Animation from 1960s
Watch this treasure of an industrial film from Bell Telephone Laboratories: The Incredible Machine covering early computer graphics, synthesized speech, computer-made movies from the 1968.
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Are Films Worse Now Than They Were in 1972?
Every film buff ought to know that 1972 gave the world what many consider the best film ever made: The Godfather We also got a some pretty great films that are still discussed today: So 1972 must...
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It’s Spooky How Long Since We’ve Posted Our Last Video
Many a hallowed eve has past since we last posted a video (well several moons no doubt) so we thought it might be time to dig up a corpses from our past. If you need some time to kill inbetween the...
View ArticleOrigins of Film Noir
Please consider supporting us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FilmmakerIQ Jump into the world of Film Noir and look at how the technology and economic factors gave birth to a genre that still...
View ArticleThe History and Science of Color Temperature
Please consider supporting us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FilmmakerIQ Survey the effect of color temperature and its psychological effects from the incessant heat of Spike Lee’s “Do the Right...
View ArticleHollywood’s History of Faking It | The Evolution of Greenscreen Compositing
Please consider supporting us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FilmmakerIQ Go inside the history of the travelling mattes (now called chromakey) and learn the history of visual trickery used by...
View ArticleThe Science & History of Popcorn – The Snack that Saved the Movies
Please consider supporting us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FilmmakerIQ For some, Popcorn and the Movies just go together. But it hasn’t always been that way. We look at the science and mechanics...
View ArticleThe History of Hollywood Censorship and the Ratings System
Please consider supporting us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FilmmakerIQ Take a look at the history of censorship of Hollywood from pressures from progressive groups in films infancy, through the...
View ArticleThe History of Horror
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View ArticleThe History of Sound at the Movies
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View ArticleThe History of Frame Rate for Film
Please consider supporting us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FilmmakerIQ Explore the history of the frame rate – the engine that gives motion to the motion picture from their earliest versions in...
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