Orockwell's history [17 articles]

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Current developments in high-definition technological systems for home viewing link definitively with early Home Cinema, as practised from the late 1890s, as an alternative to public spectatorship. The traditions of Home Cinema, in encompassing degrees of informality, interaction and control within domestic exhibition, served to lay foundations for a televisual experience which, today, having come full-circle, is defining itself once more as `Home Cinema'. 10.1177/1354856507079174 ...

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Entrepreneurs attempted to bring the moving picture into the home within months of the first public projections. This paper surveys some of these early efforts, examining at length the career of the Edison Home Projecting Kinetoscope, introduced in 1912. The failure of this ambitious venture resulted from a wide range of problems in merchandising and technology. Data is drawn largely from the records of the Edison National Historic Site in West Orange, New Jersey. ...

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Abstract  After the appearance of a portable Kodak cine camera in 1923, home moving making grew steadily in popularity in the years leading up to and following World War II. Cine enthusiasts, particularly in the pre-war period, tended to be male, white and middle class, although exceptions exist, and they tended to travel with their cameras much as earlier generations had documented their experiences in written and artistic form. Despite their amateur status, they were often very professional in their approach to ...

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"Gothick" in the first decades of the 18th century often simply meant "medieval," an inclusive term for both the round-arched Norman and the later pointed forms. But architectural historians using terms more precisely, have tended to focus on pointed arches. The round-arched, or Neo-Norman, expressions of medievalism in the baroque period have thus been largely ignored. This study sets out to remedy that deficiency by concentrating on one particular castle, a remarkably early instance of neo-medievalist design. The castle in question ...