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The origin of theater
First play was in 427 Bc the play was called the persians the first play was a one person play called a protagonist and a cast of people that helped tell the story (Narrators). Theatre emerged from myth, ritual, and ceremony. The first stories came from wall paintings,decoration,artifacts,hieroglyphics. The plays would tell stories about the gods, life cycles, and seasonal changes. -
Period: 427 to
The History of movies/theater
A timeline of the history of movies/theater -
May 22, 1500
Shakespeare, William
In the 1500s theater was excelling.Women weren’t allowed to perform in plays only men were able to preform. Plays were often performed in a home of a royal because they preferred not having to leave their house. The theaters were actually real theaters in the 1500s but earlier at the beginning they were just open areas to perform. Most of the people that saw the theater in the day were either living on the street or out of work. William Shakespeare was a important part in this time he wrote many -
May 23, 1500
Shakespeare continued
plays such as Julius caesar, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Twelfth night, and Macbeth he was very famous for his plays. -
The start of the color camera
Nicephore Nipiece takes the first fixed, permanent photograph of an engraving of Pope Pius VII, using a non-lens contact-printing heliographic process.Later the photo was the earliest surviving example is from 1825 Louis Daguerre was also experimenting to find a way to capture an image.Iit would take him another dozen years before Daguerre was able to reduce exposure time to less than 30 minutes and keep the image from disappearing afterwards. Daguerre and Niepce's son sold the rights for the -
continued color camera
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The early motion picture camera
Thomas Edison invented one of the early motion picture cameras. The first movie was a “Talkie”, There was also sound with the camera that Thomas Edison made. But the Frenchman Louis Lumiere is often credited as inventing the first motion picture camera in 1895. Several other people had made similar around the same time as Lumiere. The camera recorded sound and video in black and white. -
The first indoor theater
The first theater in the world exclusively devoted to showing motion pictures was the Nickelodeon, which was opened on June 19, 1905 in Pittsburgh, Penn. The theater was the creation of Harry Davis and John P. Harris who moved 96 seats into an empty store at 433-435 Smithfield St. transforming it into the world's first movie theater. -
The first 3-D movie
The first 3-D feature was Nat Deverich's 5-reel melodrama Power of Love (US '22), starring Terry O'Neil and Barbara Bedford. It premiered at the Ambassador Hotel Theater, Los Angeles, on September 27, 1922. The drive thru movie theater, the indoor movie theater, and 3-D movies are all the things we have today -
Drive-thru movie theaters
People went to outdoor theaters because the cost of indoor theaters were rising and rising. And because outdoor theaters could fit many people but indoor theaters could only fit so many. Drive-in theaters are also romantic. At their peak in 1958 there were between 4000 and 5000 drive-ins operating in the United States. -
The future of movies
In the future I think there will be a movie theater in your house and you can interact in the movie and change how the movie would go by doing different things. In 2050 I think it will be like that. So if you choose to do a certain thing to the storyline you will change the story completely.
