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The First Ever Camera
The first camera ever was named "Kodak." Made by George Eastman, this camera was first using paper film but switched to celluloid in 1888-1889. Eastman released it for sale in 1888. -
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The History of Film
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The Lumiere Brothers
These brothers built a projector that could transfer the motion picture to a screen in 1895. They let people watch them and made a lot of money from it. People loved the films, they were very short, at maximum around a minute long. -
The First Movie
The first movie with a real plot was called, "The Great Train Robbery." The film blew peoples minds with its 12 minute length. At this point in time an average film was 30 seconds, that's 24 times larger than the average. -
Hollywood Land
Hollywood Land was created by solo film makers who wanted to flee Thomas Edisons wrath in New York alongside the MPPC. These film makers found a gold mine in California with the bright sun rays, the cold mountains, and the desert. All these new settings that aren't in New York. -
Talkies
Talkies were the first ever films with audio a.k.a sound. The most iconic was "The Jazz Singer." Where a man performed a song on film and you could actually hear him. This blew peoples minds once again and became very popular. Eventually Silent Films were completely taken over bay Talkies. -
Technicolor Films and The Wizard of Oz
Technicolor was a design for a camera that added colors to films. The Wizard of Oz was created in 1939 with color and was the biggest film ever at its time. -
Gone With the Wind
The movie Gone With the Wind was released in 1941. The movie was a sensation and broke records for film viewings. It revolutionized film standards for the years to come. -
New Methods
The 1950's was the era of change for the film industry. They went from tiny screens to huge wide screens as we now have today. They also created 3-D films and it was a sensation. The realization it created for the films was unheard of, and unseen if you will. -
The New Hollywood Movement
The New Hollywood Movement was a movement of young film makers who changed the way films were made and the messages conveyed throughout. They made the film director the highest form of authority rather than the studio. They created genres of film that conveyed messages that were much different than societies beliefs. -
The Golden Age
The 1970's started off terribly for the film industry, with no appeal to the younger generations as they did in the 60's. They made films about Pearl Harbor even that were flops. But then they got creative and made crime dramas, disaster movies, and many more ideas that are commonly used today. The movie Jaws was released in the 1970's. I mean this era was an era of money for the film industry, and it all happened in the 70's. They call it the "Golden Age of Film" -
CGI
The CGI changed film forever. I'm talking tremendous amounts. In todays films CGI is used in all of them. Every single film uses it nowadays. They used it in the first jurassic park made in 1993, and they use it in all movies of modern day. The CGI creates the image a film maker has in his/her head. -
Titanic
In 1997 the movie "Titanic" was released, this movie broke every box office record and was the highest grossing film of all time up until the movie "Avatar" with all the blue people. Titanic is still to this day one of the most recognized films in history due to its massive success in the late 1990's and early 2000's.
