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First Film Ever Made
Muybridge created the first movie called A Horse In Motion. It was made by accident when he and some "chaps" bet on a horse was in the air while running. The result of all the pictures taking looked like a moving image -
Celluloid Film
George Eastman and Hannibal Goodwin each invent a celluloid base roll of photographic film to replace glass plates popularly used. they both the next year file for patents -
The Kinetoscope Parlor
The First Kinetoscpe parlor was built using Edison's invention of the Kinetoscope. Thomas Edison had already built a projector but decided to keep it private seeing how he could make more money making people watch alone. People would come in and wait and be dazzled by the now simplistic moving pictures -
The Cinematographe
Mafe public what Thomas Edison didnt want to do. The Lumiere brothers created a projecter for movies. 30-60 seond videos were shown here -
First narrative
The first narrative movie was "The Great Train Robbery". It had a real story first. It was only 12 minutes long, which is short by todays standards but long for them -
Vaudeville started incorporating nickolodeans
Vaudeville to get a one up on the competition incorporated nickolodeans. They were used as filler inbetween acts. This is also the origin of the t.v and movie busines of later time -
Actors Credit
Actors began to recieve screen credit. Opened the door to better recognition of stars. Therefore, aiding in the creation of superstars and the trend of seeing a movie just because you favorite star is in it -
Zooming in
Bell&Howell 2709 camera made.It allows zooming in without moving the camera. Resulted in much smoother and advanced movies -
Warner Bros
Warer Bros is established and later starts working on video.They late begin developing video and sound systems. Currently are one of the biggest film companies -
Dialogue Popularity
American gangster films became popular. Dialogue now took more popularity over “slapstick” in Hollywood comedies. Famous line and phrases started being repeated -
Disney Growing
Disney was able to make more animated features due to success of snow white and seven dwarfs. Allowed them to make movies such as pinnochio and other hits. -
Supernatural and sci fi
The cold war paranoia manifest in movies like "Invasion Of The Body Snatchers" and other movies of its kind. Supernatural Movies and sci fi movies becam popular. Also, conspiracies also resulted from movie encoraged paranoia -
TV takeover
the fim industry started being threatened by television. The increasing popularity of TV meant a few film theatres would go bankrupt and shut down. The end of the “studio system” sparked the self-commentary of films such as Sunset Boulevard (1950) and The Bad and the Beautiful (1952). -
Hoolywood System
Studio system in Hollywood started dissapearing.Reason be, films were n being made on in other countries, or using studio facilities abroad such as Pinewood in the UK. OCcured in throughout the early 1960's -
Violence in cinema
the release of controversial films like Straw Dogs, created heated controversy over escalation of violence in movies. Families started worrying about how the violence in movies affected their kids and rubbed off on them. Other medias were looked at too such as vido games -
Creative Work&Controle
Director’s began to express their personal vision and creativity.The development of the auteur style helped gave far greater control over projects than previous eras. Resulting in great successes, like The Godfather films, Spielberg’s Jaws and George Lucas’s Star Wars. It also,resulted in failures, such as Peter Bogdanovich’s At Long Last Love and Michael Cimino’s hugely expensive Western epic Heaven’s Gate. -
VCR Effects
sale and rental of films on home video became a second venue for films.As a result, it was another source of revenue for the film industries. Started in early 1980's when VCR becam popular -
Online Distribution
Films started being distributed online. Therefore people were able to watch movies much easier. Competed with vhs and other movie players -
Documentaries
documentarys began to grow as possibly competitive genre for the first time. Due to the success of films such as Michael Moore’s Bowling for Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11. As a result, people became greater intrested in historical events -
3D
3D films gained popularity with other movies being released in 3D. The best success was Walt Disney Pictures/Pixar’s Toy Story 3. Avatar helped spark this trend when it blew away the population with its 3D preformace
