The First

FILM ◄The history of film spans over 100 years, from the latter part of the 19th century to the present day.

◄Motion pictures developed gradually from a carnival novelty to one of the most important tools of communication and entertainment, and mass media in the 20th century and into the 21st century.

EARLY FILM• It was in America that people were first induced to pay to watch -- in May 1895 in a store on

Broadway. In Europe it was not until November 1895 in Berlin that a movie was shown in public.

• The quality of the movies shown in New York and Berlin were extremely poor and used processes that had no lasting impact on movie technology. The "true" debut of the motion picture is therefore usually dated to December 28, 1895 in Paris, where at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines the Lumière brothers had their first paying audience.

WHEN WAS IT STARTED?

◄The cinema was invented during the 1890's, during what is now called the industrial revolution.

THE FIRST MOTION PICTURE EVER MADE ↓The First Motion Picture Ever Made - The Horse In Motion (1878)

- In 1878 Eadweard Muybridge photographed a horse named "Occident" in fast motion using a series of 12 stereoscopic cameras. The first experience successfully took place on June 11 at the Palo Alto farm in California. The cameras were arranged along a track parallel to the horse's, and each of the camera shutters was controlled by a trip wire which was triggered by the horse's hooves.

IT’S EFFECT

◄Motion picture films have substantially affected the arts, technology, and politics.

The Frenchman Louis Lumiere is often credited as inventing the first motion picture camera in 1895. But in truth, several others had made similar inventions around the same time as

Lumiere. What Lumiere invented was a portable motion-picture camera, film processing unit and

projector called the Cinematographe, three functions covered in one invention.

THE FIRST? I DON’T THINK SO.

VICTORIAN AGE◄Movies would become the most popular visual art form of the late Victorian age. It was simpler because of the fact that before the cinema people would have to travel long distances to see major dioramas or amusement parks.

REMARKABLE CHANGES • The history of film is one of the most rapidly moving of any artistic or communications medium

ever, as befits perhaps the first great mass medium of the modern era. Film has gone through a remarkable array of changes and developed a remarkable variety and sophistication in barely more than one hundred years of existence.

15 BEST FILM PRODUCERS OF ALL TIME• Steven Spielberg -Quentin Tarantino

• George Lucas -Walt Disney

• Martin Scorsese -Ridley Scott

• Francis Ford Coppola -Stephen King

• Christopher Nolan -Peter Jackson

• Oliver Stone

• Clint Eastwood

• James Cameron

• Stanley Kubrick

• Robert Zemeckis

FILM EXHIBITION• Initially films were mostly shown as a novelty in special venues, but the main methods of

exhibition quickly became either as an item on the programmes of variety theatres, or by traveling showman in tent theatres, which they took around the fairs in country towns.

THE SILENT ERA• In the silent era of film, marrying the image with synchronous sound was not possible for

inventors and producers, since no practical method was devised until 1923.

• Thus, for the first thirty years of their history, films were silent, although accompanied by live musicians and sometimes sound effects and even commentary spoken by the showman or projectionist.

FUN FACTS !

◄ Did you know ?

Most films before 1930 were silent. O.O

RESOURCES • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_film

• http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blmotionpictures.htm

• http://historymatters.gmu.edu/mse/film/socialhist.html

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