Welcome to the official blog for “Hands-On Film History,” the upper-level undergraduate seminar taught alongside this companion website. Below you will find brief entries on historical media practices researched, written, peer reviewed, and edited by students in the course.

 

Chronophotography
Claymation
Multiplane Camera
Phantasmagoria
Phenakistoscope
Puppet Animation
Serpentine Dance
Slit-Scan Photography
Spirit Photography
Split-System Animation
Time-Lapse Photography