Film History- Sydney

By Sydney Su

  • First Movie/Film Created

    First Movie/Film Created
    The Horse in Motion was created by Eadweard Muybridge, a British photographer. He shot a series of still photographs of a horse galloping at full speed after making a bet that a horse has all four feet off the ground at some point. It was noticed that if the pictures are flipped fast enough, it shows a moving object. This was the very beginning of all film history.

  • First Horror Film

    First Horror Film
    Le Manoir du Diable or The House of the Devil, is a French short silent film directed by Groges Melies. It was the very first movie to use special effects to frighten the audience. This film was over three minutes, which was which long during its time.

  • First Action Movie

    First Action Movie
    The Great Train Robbery is an American silent film produced by Edwin S. Porter. It is twelve minutes long, but was a big hit during this time. The film used a number of "unconventional" film techniques, such as having a frequent camera movement. Little did they know, the film because an inspiration of many other classic films, like Butch Cassidy's 1900 Train Heist. It is a classic and its camera techniques has a big influence on modern-day movies.

  • First Animated Film

    First Animated Film
    Humorous Phases of Funny Faces is a short silent cartoon directed by James Stuart Blackton. This film had a huge influence in the development of animated film in America. It uses the stop-motion technique to show the movement of the drawn figures on the chalkboard.

  • First Comedy Film

    First Comedy Film
    Tillie's Punctured Romance is an American silent comedy film directed by Mack Sennett. This film was based on the stage play, Tillie's Nightmare. The film is notable for being the last Chaplin Film which he didn't write nor direct. It is the the very first feature-length comedy in all of cinema.

  • First Natural Colored Movie

    First Natural Colored Movie
    Cupid Angling is a silent film that was made with the Douglass Natural Color process. Edward Turner and GA Smith used separate colored filters, then projected with the images on top each other so that the colors will show. It was the accepted "first" color feature-length film, and is the oldest listed on IMDB as color.

  • First Film with Sound

    First Film with Sound
    The Jazz Singer is a American musical film that was made with Vitaphone, which was at the time the leading brand of sound technology. It was the first feature-length motion picture with a synchronized recorded music score and lip-synchronus singing. It was the start of sound films and the decline of silent film era.

  • First Colored Animated Film

    First Colored Animated Film
    Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is an American animated film produced by Walt Disney Production. This classic was originally released by RKO Radio Pictures. It has on of the highest-grossing sound film at the time. This film is ranked in the American Film Institute's list of the 100 greatest American Films.

  • Highest Grossing Movie

    Highest Grossing Movie
    Gone with the Wind had a gross of $1,685,052,200. It is an American historical romance film, based off of Margaret Mitchell's novel. This movie is set in the South, and went against the backdrop of the American Civil War and the Reconstruction Era. This film was extremely popular and is still one of the most successful film is box-office history.

  • First Psycho Movie

    First Psycho Movie
    Psycho is a film produced by Alfred Hitchcock. It is considered as one of the greatest films of all time. It sets a new level of acceptability of violence, awful behavior, and sexuality in American films. This film was a major influence of other horror movies that will created in the future.

  • The Godfather

    The Godfather
    The Godfather is consider as one of the greatest drama film of all time. This movie is based off of Mario Puzo's novel. This film was influenced by real life situation. It was influenced by the "Five Families", the Mafia-organization in New York. Characters were also based off of real crime bosses

  • First Digital Animated Film

    First Digital Animated Film
    Toy Story is an American computer-animated film produced by Pixar Animation Studio. It was the first feature-length computer-animated film, and the first feature film produced by Pixar. The film was the start of the era of digitalized movies. This film was the highest-grossing film on its opening weekend, earning over $373 million.