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History of film

Wheel of life

The first machine that showed motion pictures of drawings was made in the united states by William Lincoln, patented in 1867 was to show moving photographs and drawings of pictures. This was called the ‘’wheel of life’’ .

Cinematographe

Even though there was lots of inventions around this time, Louis Lumiere with his brother August Lumiere were credited for the creation of the first motion picture, 1895 this was a portable camera with motion picture, film processing unit and projector called Cinematographe

The first film

These where usually films of trains, also before 1930 most of these films where silent films. The first film was by the Louis Lumiere and August Lumiere in 1986

The first colour film

in 1899 Edward Turner patented with Frederick Marshall Lee the first colour motion picture process in Britain however this was seen as unworkable by Charles urban he made his own colour processer Kinemacolor this became the most commercially successful motion picture in colour.

History of horror

1890’s to the 1920’s The first of supernatural films was created by Georges Mèliés in the late 1890’s, a silent film Le manoir du diable, which is sometimes credited for being the first horror movie. In 1910 Edison Studios produced the first film version of Frankenstein. In 1922 the first vampire themed movie was made nosferatu by murnaus an unauthorised version of Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

The first American horror movie star Lon Chaney was in the Hunchback of Notre Dame [ 1923 ] and The monster [ 1925 ] , he was also in the Phantom Of The Opera [ 1925 ] .

1930’s to the 1940’s In this time era Movie Studio Universal Pictures began the theme of gothic horror. With science- fiction and Egyptology as themes.

Tod Browning’s Dracula [ 1931 ] James Whales Frankenstein [ 1931 ] Science- Fiction blended in with gothic horror, James whales The Invisible Man, this has a mad scientist this was designed to thrill. The mummy [ 1932 ] introduced Egyptology as another theme for horror. One of the most influential werewolf films is The Wolf Man [ 1941 ] .

1950’s to the 1960’s The theme of aliens started to come about with the recent new technology being recognised also mutations in Godzilla [ 1954 ]The Hammer company started to make horror films in colour, this was the first time anyone had seen this with films like The Curse Of Frankenstein [ 1957 ] these films would often star Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. Peeping Tom was the first slasher movie [ 1960 ] The Haunting [ 1963 ] started the horror of the demonic

1970’s to the 1980’s The Exorcist [ 1973 ] was the first commercially successful of supernatural evil with the Devil representing this. The introduction of bringing children to show the evil spirit as they have been possessed Alice sweet Alice [ 1977 ] The Omen [ 1976 ] Slasher films became popular Halloween John Carpenter [ 1978 ] Friday The 13TH Sean Cunningham [ 1980 ] A Nightmare On Elm Street [ 1984 ]

1990’s This saw the sequels of A Nightmare On Elm Street, Friday The 13TH, Halloween. The Scream movies by Wes Craven, reignited the Slasher movies along with i know what you did last summer.

2000’s This era was mainly about remakes of some earlier popular films this included The Texas Chainsaw Massacre [ 2003 ] The Hills Have Eyes [ 2006 ] Friday The 13TH [ 2009 ] Recently we have seen films that are more towards the supernatural spirit theme with films The Conjuring [ 2013 ] Paranormal Activity [ 2007 and beyond ] Insidious [ 2010 ]