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Horse In Motion
Multiple cameras were timed to go off at the same time in order to capture this film. The film showed that all four of the horses hooves left the ground whilst galloping, and also introduced motion photography. -
Roundhay Garden scene
The earliest surviving motion picture film, only 2:11 long. The silent film was directed by Louis Le Prince. -
The Great Train Robbery
Directed by Edwin S Porter, this film contained a range of innovative new editing techniques, such as cross cutting. It also used camera movement and on location shooting which were still fairly new ideas. -
The Birth Of A Nation
D W Griffith's The Birth Of a Nation is generally thought of as a critical point in film history. He introduced a lot of new filmmaking techniques that made this a cinematically innovating. These include title cards, its own score, use of still-shot, using the cameras iris effect, paralleled action, fade outs, dissolves, high angle shots, pans and more. Although the film was heavily criticised for being directly racist, it remains a landmark in film. -
Moviola
The moviola was one of the first machines built for motion picture editing, and allowed the editor to look at single frames to make more precise cuts. -
Napoléon
NapoleonThe silent film about Napoléon Bonaparte directed by Abel Gance used a lot of new and captivating filmmaking techniques. In production this included close-ups, hand-held camera, point of view shots,location shooting and multi-camera setups. Added in post-production was fast cutting, visual effects, and split screen, which was very innovative at the time -
Becky Sharp
Becky Sharp, directed by Rouben Mamoulian was the first film shot in colour, on the new three strip technicolour production. -
The Wizard of Oz
The wizard of oz was a landmark in film due to its use of colour when Dorothy leaves Kansas, and special effects. -
Reverse motion in Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast (1946)Reverse motion shots are where the action is shown reversed on screen. Beauty and the Beast was the first motion picture to do this, and it can be done in pre-production by printing the film backwards, or in production by making the camera run backwards. -
Steenbeck
Steenbeck produced tables for film editing that were widely used for linear editing. -
AVID1 Non-linear editor
This mac based non-linear editing software was the favoured over moviolas and steenbecks because of its ease of use. -
Memento
Memento, the neo-noir crime by Christopher Nolan, is a great example of non-linear editing. The opening shot is a reverse shot of a polaroid developing, and the entire film is shown in reverse order to play on the main characters short term memory loss. This would be very difficult to accomplish without non-linear video editing.
