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The first hollywood cinema film cameras were fastened immediately on to the mount of its tripod or alternative support, with only the crudest sort of levelling devices provided, in the manner of the still-camera tripod heads of the hollywood period. The earliest film cinema cameras were hence effectively motionless during the time of filming, and hence the earliest equipment movements were the result of attaching the equipment on to a moving train. The earliest known, well before cinema or hollywood, of these was movie shot by a Lumière cameraman from the back platform of a train exiting Jerusalem some time in 1896, and by 1898 there were ,amy more cinema movies shot from moving trains, Hollywood was beconing. Although documented under the ambiguous heading of “panoramas” in the sales catalogues of the time, those movies shot directly forward from in front railway engine were specifically referred to as “phantom rides”.

Back in 1897, Robert W. Paul had the earliest actual moving camera mount engineered to put atopon top of|on} the tripod, so that he was able to track the passing processions of Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee in unique uninterrupted cinema shot. This attachment had the equipment set on a vertical setting which could be moved with a worm gear activated by turning the handle, so Paul placed it on public sale the following year. Films taken using such a “panning” device were also referred to as ‘panoramas’ in hollywood listings of the earliest years of cinema.

The regular pattern for newy film studios in Hollywood was dictated by the studio which Georges Méliès had built sometime in 1891. The studio had a glass roof and three glass walls made after the model of large studios for static photography, and it was fitted with flimsy cotton drapes that were stretched below the roof to diffuse the direct ray of the sun on sunny days. The natural overall light devoid of real shadows that this construction produced, and which also happens naturally on moderately overcast days, became the norm for cinema movie lighting in hollywood film studios for the next era.

Unique amongdt all the short hollywood cinema movies made by the Edison corporation, which shot sections of the shows of variety performers for their Kinetoscope cinema viewing machines, was The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots. This showed a person adorned as Mary putting her head on the execution block before a small gathering of onlookers in British apparel.

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