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Étienne-Jules Marey‘
In 1882 he created a devise that would take 12 consecutive frames that were all recorded onto one singular image. He is also known for filming the world's first cat video in 1890. -
Roundhay Garden Scene
Roundhay Garden Scene is an 1888 short film directed by French inventor Louis Le Prince. It was recorded at 12 frames per second and runs for 2.11 seconds. It is the oldest surviving film in existence, noted by the Guinness Book of Records.It features Adolphe Le Prince, Sarah Whitley, Joseph Whitley and Harriet Hartley in the garden, walking around. Note that Sarah is walking backwards as she turns around, and that Joseph's coat tails are flying as he also is turning. -
The Lumiere Brothers
Auguste and Louis Lumiere are renouned for the world's first public screening of 10 short films lasting 20 minutes in total. It was held in a basement lounge in Grand Cafe in Paris. -
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History of Short Films
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L'arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat (Train Pulling into a Station))
A 50 second short black and white documentary film directed and produced by the Lumiere Brothers. It illustrates the use of a long shot to establish the setting followed by a medium and a close up. -
Le Voyage Dans La Lune
A Trip to the Moon (French: Voyage dans la Lune),is a 1902 French silent film directed by Georges Méliès. Inspired by a wide variety of sources, it follows a group of astronomers who travel to the moon in a cannon-propelled spaceship, explore the moon's surface, escape from an underground group of Selenites (lunar inhabitants), and return in a splashdown to Earth with a captive Selenite in tow. Furthermore many historians believe that it was the most technically innovative film of that time. -
The Great Train Robbery
Porter took the archetypal American Western story, and made it an entirely new visual experience. The one-reel film, with a running time of twelve minutes, was assembled in twenty separate shots, along with a close-up of a bandit firing at the camera. It used as many as ten different indoor and outdoor locations and was groundbreaking in its use of cross-cutting in editing to show simultaneous action in different places. No earlier film had created such swift movement or varity of scene. -
Emile Cohl's Fantasmagorie
It is one of the earliest examples of traditional (hand-drawn) animation and is considered to be the first animated cartoon. It was made up of 700 drawings leading to a running time of almost two minutes. -
Charlie Chaplin (The Tramp)
Charlie Chaplin playing 'the tramp', was the icon of the silent film era. He never spoke only in his last film to sing a song. Furthermore he was one of the first characters to be played in many films from Kid Auto Races at Venice to his last film Modern Times. -
The Jazz Singer
The first feature-length motion picture with synchronized dialogue sequences, its release heralded the commercial ascendance of the "talkies" and the decline of the silent film era. Directed by Alan Crosland and produced by Warner Bros. with its Vitaphone sound-on-disc system, the movie stars Al Jolson, who performs six songs. -
Un Chien Andalu (An Andalusian Dog)
A silent short film directed by Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel co-written with artist Salvador Dali. It was Buñuel's first film that runs for 17 minutes and was shot for over a period of 10 days. -
Short Film Festivals
First ever festival in Venice and it is the longest-running film festival in the world. Show films to the public by adding outdoor screenings. -
Francois Truffaut
was a French influential film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film critic, as well as one of the founders of the French New Wave. In a film career lasting over a quarter of a century, he remains an icon of the French film industry, having worked on over 25 films. Truffaut's film The 400 Blows came to be a defining film of the New Wave genre -
Jean-Luc Godard (French New Wave)
Like his New Wave contemporaries, Godard criticized mainstream French cinema's "Tradition of Quality",which emphasized craft over innovation, privileged established directors over new directors, and preferred the great works of the past to experimentation.To challenge this tradition, he started to make his own films.Many of his films challenge the conventions of traditional Hollywood in addition to French cinema.He is often considered the most radical french filmmaker of the 1960-70's. -
Ridley Scott
English film director sand producer. His best-known films include Alien, Blade Runner, Gladiator and American gangste. Known for atmospheric, highly concentrated visual style and have influenced many other directors. -
Tim Burton
Americsn film director. Famous for darktake on horror and fantasy, and his animations. Work includes Beetlejuice, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Edward Scissorhands and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. He has won various awards. -
Christopher Nolan
Founder of Syncopy Films, and director of the Batman trilogy and various other work. The youngest director to be honoured with a hand-and-footprint ceremony in LA. -
Ashvin Kumar
Independent Indian filmmaker, famous for his first short film Little Terrorist, with which he became the youngest Indian director to win an Oscar. -
YouTube
Viral vdeo-sharing website where anything can be posted, giving filmmakers the opportunity to share their productions to over 1 billion users.
