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First Movie
The first Movie was shown in theaters, but it was black and white with no sound. The film was caled A Trip To The Moon. It was a french film, directed, produced and written by Georges Méliès. He also starred in the film alongside Victor André, Bleuette Bernon, Jeanne d'Alcy and Henri Delannoy
. It is based loosely on two popular novels of the time: Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon and H. G. Wells' The First Men in the Moon. The film only lated 14 minutes. -
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The Silent Era
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Color
Technicolor The Gulf Between was the first film to use Technicolor and the first feature-length color movie. Color movies were expensive and difficult to produce, and so displaced black-and-white films far more slowly than "talkies" had replaced silent films. By 1954, just half of all films were being made in color. the first feature-length sound film in color was MGM'S The Viking, 1928. It had a synchronized score and sound effects but no audable dialogue. -
Sound
The first movie to have a synchronized sound track was Fritz Lang's Siegfried in 1925, with a musical score but no dialogue. The Jazz Singer, released in 1927, featured Al Jolson singing a few songs. When the first all-talking film, Lights of New York, was released in 1928, the talkies had really arrived.
Audiences ejoyed watchin them because they liked hearing the actors speak. The advent of sound created the question of how to provide for the differing languages of the international audience. -
Sound and Color
The Viking was the first film to use color and feature a soundtrack, but the sound was only sound effects and no dialog. -
Animation
The first Mickey Mouse ever created was in Plane Crazy. The first machine patented in the United States that showed animated pictures or movies was a device called the "wheel of life" or "zoopraxiscope". Patented in 1867 by William Lincoln. -
First all talking film
The first ever all talking film was The Lights of New York. It was released by warner brother and dircted by bryan Foy. The enthusiasm with which audiences had towards the all talking film was so good that by the end of 1929, Hollywood was producing sound films exclusively. -
Color and Dialog
The first all color film to feature dialog was a 1929 American musical film called On the Show. It is the second color movie released by Warner Brothers. -
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3D Popularity
Greatest popularity of 3D movies was in the early 1950s with 27 3D movies created in 1953. -
Kodak Eastman Color
Royal Journey was the first film to use Kodak's Eastman Color process in place of technicolor. It is an American multinational imaging and photographic equipment, materials and services company. It was founded by George Eastman in 1889. Kodak is best known for photographic film products and held a dominant position in photographic film.
