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Vaudeville
A small theatre that showed 30 second movies that had skits. Originally started around the early 1800s as many unrelated acts it developed into including short films after they became popular. Vaudevilles lated till the early 1930s as film developed more. -
Eadweard Muybridge
1882 an Englishmen who bet 25,00 dollars that a horse ran with all their hooves off of the ground at full speed. He took a sequence of rapidly taken pictures of a horse running at the track. It created an optical illusion of movement is looked at left to right fast. -
Edison's Projector
Thomas Edison created a peephole kinetoscope projector in 1889 as a way for people to see films at in a group at once. He, however made it to only pocket money and charged people to only see it one at a time. He never unveiled it as a way to make profit for his invention. -
Kinetoscope
The first movie theatre was a kinetoscope parlor. People came and pained money to see very short films that only ran a few seconds each. A disadvantage was that it was only able to be watched alone, done as a way to try and make a lot of money off of it. -
LumièreBrothers
The Lumière brothers combined film and projection together to create a Cinématographe, a way for an audience to see a film together. It costed one franc to see a film, very cheap even for back then. The films had been so mesmerizing that people actually hurt themselves watching them! -
Editing
The first instances of editing began to pop up around the early 1900s. The first short film to present editing was Grandma's Reading Glass by George Albert Smith. It involved a series of close ups of objects intercut with a boy who is helping his grandmother look for her reading glasses. -
The Great Train Robbery
This was the first film that included narrative within. It's twelve minutes long and has fourteen scenes! It had been considered an epic back when it first came out due to it's uniqueness and never before seen filming. -
Nickelodeons
Vaudevilles evolved into showing short films, which were eventually called Nickelodeons. They were shows that costed a nickel per admission for a film, Which was how it and the network Nickelodeon received their names. They often included full orchestras due to the lack of sound which also included people who created special sound effects. The theaters raked in millions of views and money. -
The First Feature Film
Films used to last only a short amount of time, film that lasted on a single reel. The first feature film made lasted about an hour and was created by an Australian named Charles Tait. It was called The Story of kelly Gang, about a notorious Australian bushranger named Ned Kelly. -
MPPC
Edison seized the potential for big profits from Nickelodeons and monopolized the business. MPPC stands for Motion Picture Patents Company, which owned actors and actresses and everything used in industry. He used the MPPC to avoid paying the actors/resses and not list them in his films. -
Independent Films
Actually payed their actors and credited them in their films. Edison considered them to be a risk and whenever he found them he's wreck their equipment and hurt their actors to put a stop to them. They helped get southern California popular because it was by the Mexican boarder where they fled to keep their films safe. -
Charlie Chaplin
Was a comic genius! He was known for his films about comedy, social equality, and dictators and world leaders. He started off at 150 dollars a week in the beginning of his career and raised up to 1 million a year! -
Mary Pickford
Was "America's Sweetheart" as well as the "Girl with the Curls." She was an actress as well as a producer. She's considered as one of the greatest female film stars of the classic film era. -
First Natural Coloring
Films were predominantly black and white. This changed when a documentary from the UK called Our King and Queen through India was filmed. It was the first film shot that had natural colors instead of being implemented through colorization techniques. Even so it wasn't popularized till the 1930's with Walt Disney created the film Flowers and Trees in 1932. -
Walt Disney
Walt Disney was well known for his lovable characters Mickey Mouse, Goofy, Donald Duck, and countless other animations. He has worked on several political cartoons throughout World War 2 and also heartwarming ones like Snow White, one of his first iconic films. He also founded Disney World and Land and died a wealthy man. -
Max Fleischer
He was a Polish-American who helped to develop animation. His creations Betty Boop, Ko-Ko the Clown, Bimbbo, and Grampy were iconic for their hose style movements and recognizable character. He is often overlooked in favor of Walt Disney even though he was the first to help pioneer animation in America. -
Modernizing Sound
Walt Disney was credited with being one of the first founders of modern day sound. He wanted to incorporate the Flight of the Bumblebees into his film Fantasia and in doing so created what was called "Fantasound." This was the first instance of surround sound and was expensive, costing his $85,000 to install, which only two theaters did because it had not been popular yet. -
Cinemascope
Cinemascope used anamorphic lenses to create a wider and larger image to place on the screen. This was an attempt to raise ticket sales due to the creation of the television lowering their sales. Cinemascope had a ration of 2.66:1 to the standard 1.37:1 of the time. -
3D
A patent had been filled for 3D back in the 1890s but it had failed to take off due to its impracticality. It took off, however, in the 1950s with the release of Bwana Devil in 1952. It had been the first color stereoscope film in 3D and was a success with taking the major film studios by storm. 3D productions were more popular after. -
Imax
Imax was a hit with bringing clearer and increased resolution to films. A Canadian company had been the first to showcase the first Imax film, called Tiger Child, at Expo 70 in Osaka in 1970. Imax launched in 1971 and showed mostly only documentaries or upscaled 35mm films.
