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Birth Of Motion Picture
Eadweard Muybridge argued that a galloping horse had all 4 hooves off the ground at the same time. So in order to prove this theory he lined a bunch of cameras on the side and took a picture of a horse galloping -
Kinetoscope Parlor
For a price, you could watch "Moving Images" only downside is its for an audience of 1. The moving images were a series of drawings or photos presented in a rapid sequence -
Birth Of Cinematography
The Lumiere Brothers devised a projector that could show motion pictures. They called this invention Cinematographe. They created short films. Short films from 30 to 60 seconds. -
Nickelodeons
Vaudeville were small theaters that featured short dramatic skits, comedy routines, and song and dance numbers, and was quite popular. Vaudeville theaters started featuring short films. As the 1900s dawned Vaudevilles expanded into Nickelodeons -
The Great Train Robbery
Edwin Porter created the first U.S Narrative film. With this film, a real story line involving crosscutting between different narrative sequences and different camera positions and distances were all introduced -
Talkies
Talkies were films with audio. The rise of "talkies" from the late 1920s onwards led to a radical shake-up of the entertainment industry. Live entertainment went into decline and variety theatres became movie palaces, -
The Golden Age Of Hollywood
The 1930s decade has been nostalgically labeled "The Golden Age of Hollywood" . The 30s was also the decade of the sound and color revolutions and the advance of the 'talkies', and the further development of film genres . -
War Time
Movies in the 1940s, like everything else at the time, were dominated by the war. However, instead of facing shortages like most people, the industry was well supported by the government thanks to its morale boosting qualities. -
Television
The Hollywood film industry of 1950 was threatened on several different fronts. Television broadcasting was rapidly becoming the dominant entertainment medium in the United States. -
Digital Cameras
The move from film and celluloid to digital cameras was a big one in cinema history, especially for amateur and budget filmmakers.
The ability to record onto memory cards and internal storage, and not use chemicals, saved on production costs and time. -
CGI
It’s hard to believe that there were once films with absolutely no CGI, but you have to go back 40 years to 1973, to find the first use of computer-generated imagery in film. Aptly it was a 2-D digital rendition of a robotic-cowboy’s visio. -
Internet
The internet has to make this list because it has changed, and is changing the manner in which films are consumed and distributed, not to mention the types of films we watch and who is making them.
Instant access, worldwide distribution and everyone with a cellphone are now all players in the video-creation game. What was once a medium of the few – those who could afford the equipment – is now the most democratised (and sought-out) medium available. We all want video, and we want it now.
