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The history of film began
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How films have developed over the years. From the very first motion picture made all the way up to today.
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Because f the lack of technology, films wereonly around minuet long each! Now days films are lasting up to as much as five hours.
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Muybridge's pictures, published widely in the late 1800s, were often cut into strips and used in a Praxinoscope, a descendant of the zoetrope device, invented by Charles Emile Reynaud in 1877. The Praxinoscope was the first 'movie machine' that could project a series of images onto a screen.
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The silent era started around 1894 and lasted around 35 years untill sound in film was dicovered and silent movies stopped being made in early 1930's
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The first rotating camera for taking panning shots was built in 1897.
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In 1897 the very first film studio was built.This mean that special effects were introduced and film continuity, involving action moving from one sequence into another, began to be used.
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Most films of this period were what came to be called "chase films".
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The first use of animation in movies was in 1899.
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In 1900, continuity of action across successive shots was achieved and the close-up shot was introduced
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The first successful permanent theatre showing only films was "The Nickelodeon" in Pittsburgh in 1905.
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The first feature length multi-reel film was a 1906 Australian production
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By 1910 actors began to gain screen credit in film
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New film techniques were introduced in this period including the use of artificial lighting, fire effects and low-key lighting for enhanced atmosphere during sinister scenes. As films grew longer, specialist writers were employed to simplify more complex stories derived from novels or plays into a form that could be contained on one reel and be easier to be understood by the audience, the audience that was new to this form
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Genres began to be used as categories; the main division was into comedy and drama, but these categories were further subdivided.
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By 1914 cimema was fully established.
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The American industry, or "Hollywood", as it was becoming known after its new geographical center in California, gained the position it has held, more or less, ever since: film factory for the world and exporting its product to most countries.
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The first feature film originally presented as a talkie was The Jazz Singer, released in October 1927. A major hit, it was made with Vitaphone, the leading brand of sound-on-disc technology. Sound-on-film, however, would soon become the standard for talking pictures.
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The art of motion pictures grew into full maturity in the "silent era", before silent films were replaced by "talking pictures" in the early 1930's
