Multimedia 1900: Experience and Entertainment in Everyday Life - Ian Christie

0:00 // Introduction: Media Studies and What It's Really About 2:56 // What Is a Medium? From the Renaissance to McLuhan 3:58 // Marshall McLuhan, Richard Hoggart and the Birth of Media Studies 6:08 // Remediation: How New Media Always Refashion Old Media 10:00 // London as the Centre of the 19th Century Media Revolution 10:47 // The Eidophusikon: Moving Pictures in the 1780s 15:03 // Philippe de Loutherbourg and the Satan Show 16:42 // Madame Tussauds and the Duke of Wellington's Secret Habit 18:35 // The Panorama: London's First Immersive Big-Screen Experience 24:51 // The Diorama and the Egyptian Hall 28:24 // The Royal Polytechnic: Where Technology Met Entertainment 30:06 // The Great Exhibition of 1851 and the Crystal Palace 34:17 // Thomas Edison, the Phonograph and Robert Browning's Voice from the Grave 41:01 // The Kinetoscope: Edison's Moving Image Revolution Hits London 48:11 // Conclusion: Audience Response and the Birth of Screen Culture We know a great deal about media gadgetry in retrospect, but much less about how it was perceived and experienced by early users. Historians at the end of the 19th century have traditionally paid little attention to 'new media' experiences, even though media historians would claim that this was the moment when the new media of communication and entertainment were already exercising their fascination. Suppose we try to imagine a 'day in the life' of some Londoners in 1900, what would we find? This event was on Mon, 25 Sep 2017 Professor Christie was Visiting Professor in the History of Film and Media at Gresham College in 2017-2021. He is a renowned British film scholar and currently Professor of Film and Media History at Birkbeck, University of London and a Fellow of the British Academy. The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-an... Gresham College has offered free public lectures for over 400 years, thanks to the generosity of our supporters. There are currently over 2,500 lectures free to access. We believe that everyone should have the opportunity to learn from some of the greatest minds. To support Gresham's mission, please consider making a donation: https://gresham.ac.uk/support/ Website: https://gresham.ac.uk Twitter:   / greshamcollege   Facebook:   / greshamcollege   Instagram:   / greshamcollege