Brief History of Film
DEVELOPMENT OF FILM
Birth of Film 1878 | - 1st Motion Picture created by Eadweard Muybridge on a farm in California- Photographed a horse in fast motion using a series of 12 stereoscopic Cameras (00:51 to 00:58 - Birth of Cinema video) | 1888 | - 1st celluloid film shot by Louis Aime Augustin using single lens camera in Yorkshire, Great Britain called “Roundhay Garden Scene” (01:07 - 01:10 - Birth of Cinema video) | 1894 | - Thomas Edison and Whilliam Dickson invented the Kinetoscope and Vitascope. These are devices for viewing and producing pictures- 1st productions were actually camera tests (01:21-02:15 - Birth of Cinema video) | 1895 | - Lumiere Brothers, one of the earliest filmmakers, invented their own device combining camera with printer and projector and called it ‘Cinematographe’.- ‘Exiting the Factory’.(02:33 - 02:51 - Birth of Cinema video) | 1903 | - First ever Silent Film made by Edison Company employee Edwin S. Porter entitled “The Great Train Robbery” |
1st slide - Silent Era (1895 - 1929) * Primarily a working-class pastime. * Appealed to the large, mostly illiterate immigration population of the US. * After 1900s, film became a more middle-class phenomenon, as filmmakers exploited film’s storytelling potential by adapting bourgeois novels (which incorporated middle-class values) for the screen.
2nd slide - World War 1 * Major national film industries resided in Italy, France, and the United States. * World War I devastated the Italian and French film industries, allowing American producers to gain the upper hand on the global market.
Emergence of Hollywood * Emergence of Hollywood; majority of feature films were produced in Hollywood because Southern California offered inexpensive real estate, sunny climate, and varied locales. * In NY, actors were broadway theater performers at night, while they were making films during the day * Hollywood: defined a whole new moviemaking way of
Birth of Film 1878 | - 1st Motion Picture created by Eadweard Muybridge on a farm in California- Photographed a horse in fast motion using a series of 12 stereoscopic Cameras (00:51 to 00:58 - Birth of Cinema video) | 1888 | - 1st celluloid film shot by Louis Aime Augustin using single lens camera in Yorkshire, Great Britain called “Roundhay Garden Scene” (01:07 - 01:10 - Birth of Cinema video) | 1894 | - Thomas Edison and Whilliam Dickson invented the Kinetoscope and Vitascope. These are devices for viewing and producing pictures- 1st productions were actually camera tests (01:21-02:15 - Birth of Cinema video) | 1895 | - Lumiere Brothers, one of the earliest filmmakers, invented their own device combining camera with printer and projector and called it ‘Cinematographe’.- ‘Exiting the Factory’.(02:33 - 02:51 - Birth of Cinema video) | 1903 | - First ever Silent Film made by Edison Company employee Edwin S. Porter entitled “The Great Train Robbery” |
1st slide - Silent Era (1895 - 1929) * Primarily a working-class pastime. * Appealed to the large, mostly illiterate immigration population of the US. * After 1900s, film became a more middle-class phenomenon, as filmmakers exploited film’s storytelling potential by adapting bourgeois novels (which incorporated middle-class values) for the screen.
2nd slide - World War 1 * Major national film industries resided in Italy, France, and the United States. * World War I devastated the Italian and French film industries, allowing American producers to gain the upper hand on the global market.
Emergence of Hollywood * Emergence of Hollywood; majority of feature films were produced in Hollywood because Southern California offered inexpensive real estate, sunny climate, and varied locales. * In NY, actors were broadway theater performers at night, while they were making films during the day * Hollywood: defined a whole new moviemaking way of