7 Important Film making Milestones

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  • Lumiere Brothers make the Cinematograph

    Lumiere Brothers make the Cinematograph

    This allowed for movies to be projected on a screen. By doing this, movies began to become more popularized as they were easier to show in public.
  • First Movie with a Narrative

    First Movie with a Narrative

    The first movie to have a narrative was The Great Train Robbery. This movie, created by Edwin Porter, began the trend of movies having trends and not just capturing daily life.
  • Hollywoodland is Established

    Hollywoodland is Established

    Movie makers who wanted to escape the iron grasp of MPPC. They moved to California to easily make a break if things went south, but they also listed their actors, which MPPC wasn't doing.
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    Silent Films Die

    All movies were being released with sound now. This was the death of a medium.
  • Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind

    Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind

    Both of these movies utilized a new technology called Technicolor to add color to them. This allows for movies to become extremely similar to what movies are now in terms of sound and color.
  • Jaws

    Jaws

    One of the first movies to become a "blockbuster". This means it was extremely popular and lots of people bot tickets to go see it.
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    CGI is added to Movies

    People begin to create images on computers(those new handy dandy gadgets) and put them in movies. This helped to create a wider variety of movies and would help them into the modern film era.