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Edward Muybridge took 24 consecutive pictures of a moving horse. This was taken with static cameras and wasn't acutally a film.
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Étienne-Jules Marey invented a photogun (fusil photographique) that took 12 pictures a second. Marey is said to have almost perfected slow motion cinematography. He mainly filmed animals and motion of objects.
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Louis le Prince filmed the first celluloid film. It was 24 frames of his family walking around in circles in their garden.
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America's first movie studio. Owned by Thomas Edison.
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This was the first copyrighted motion picture. It was produced by the Edison Manufacturing Company.
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Shot on location documentary. The Lumiere brothers were mainly playing with the camera.
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FIrst movie with a staged plot. Also by the Lumiere brothers.
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By Georges Melies, "Father of special effects". It had artificial lighting, set design, and jump-cuts. It was supposedly a horror film, but it comes off as hilarious to people who have seen better edited films.
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First sci-fi film. Also by Georges Melies. Blended animation and live action.
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BY Edwin S. Porter, the father of the story (narrative) film. Used cutscenes and picture in picture (cross cutting) editing to move the story along.
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Edwin S. Porter directed this film. it used cutscenes and better use of filming on location. Obviously fake acting and now goofy-looking edits were revolutionary for the time. The way it used cross-cutting was the beginning of montague.
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This meant the camera could move around on wheels.
Segundo de Chomón was the first person to do this.
I can't believe it took that long for someone to figure out that you could move a camera around more easily if you put it on wheels. -
Directed by D.W. Griffith, who is still considered a film genius. It portrayed emotions by film angles, content, and the pace of the editing.
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two colors
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De Forest added sound recording for the first time. The first film to have this added to it was The Jazz Singer.
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Showed a neutral expression with cutaways to different images. People thought the person on film was being a good actor just because they assumed the character was looking at what the images were.
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This was the first Motion Picture Production Code. It wasn't enforced very well until 1934.
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Venice Biennale was an art festival held every two years in Venice, Italy, It's still running today.
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King Kong was the first full length "talkie" that had a full musical score instead of just random background music. The score was played using a 46 part orchestra and was the first that was set to match the film.
