The History of British cinema

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  • Emergent British Cinema 1880-1900

    Emergent British Cinema 1880-1900

    The first moving pictures were made in Hyde Park in 1889 by William Friese Greene, a British inventor.

  • 1895

    The first people to build and run a working 35 mm camera in Britain were Robert W. Paul and Birt Acres. In 1895 their first British film ‘Incident at Clovelly Cottage’ was made.
  • Early British Cinema 1900 - 1920

    Early British Cinema 1900 - 1920

    George Albert Smith devised the first colour system

  • The desperate 20’s and developing 30’s

    In 1927 Parliament made the Cinematographers Trade bill that guaranteed home market for British made films.This meant that 5% of the total number of movies shown in theatres had to be from Britain.
  • 1929

    1929

    Alfred Hitchcock made the first sound film "Blackmail" .

  • 1930s

    Many of the most important British productions of the 1930s were produced by London Films, founded by Alexander Korda. He founded London Films and built the finest studios in the world at Denham.

  • 1937

    The first colour feature film was appeared in Britain. It was ‘Wings of the Morning’
  • The War Years 40’s

    The War Years 40’s

    The Second World War caused a minor miracle to happen to movie making in the Britain. New realism in wartime pictures and a demand for documentaries gave a whole new look to British films. Among the best known of these films are In Which We Serve (1942), Went the Day Well? (1942), We Dive at Dawn (1943).
  • 1945-1955

    1945-1955

    In post war Britain, the Rank Organization, with Michael Balcon as the director, was the dominant force in film production
  • 1949

    1949

    Though 1949 was a bad year financially but such films as The Red Shoes; Hamlet; Fallen Idol; Great Expectations and Oliver Twist were on and they were successful.