History Regarding Films:
The first ever noted piece of film took place in 1878, they successfully managed to photograph a horse in fast motion using 24 stereoscopic cameras. We then quickly progressed to 1893, where at the Chicago World's Fair, Thomas Edison displayed his first two inventions to the public eye. These included the Kintegraph, which was the first moving practical picture camera, and the Kinetoscope.
Fairly rapidly Robert W. Paul began to realise that films should be seen by a group rather then an individual. Gradually this led to him creating a film projector that had it's first public appearance in 1895. Furthermore 1895 was a massive year for the progression of film. Auguste and Louis Lumiére invented the cinematograph, a portable 3 in 1 device; Camera; Printer; Projector. The ability for people to carry the camera around with them, spearheaded the way forward for the film industry. Leading up to 1900 the most successful company for motion picture was American Mutoscope who were, as the name suggests, US based.
Originally movies didn't really use any type of techniques, cameras were fastened directly, offering none to very little methods of levelling. As time progressed people wanted more from movies, that's when the idea of putting cameras on moving vehicles was established. The first recorded date to have done this was 1896 on the back platform of a train leaving Jerusalem, 1897 saw the making of the first real rotating camera head by Robert W. Paul, and by 1898 many films were shot from moving trains.
Special effects started to come into play during 1900. The earliest surviving example of this is with G.A. Smith's The House That Jack Built that depicted a boy knocking down a girls castle constructed by building block, a screen then comes up saying reversed showing the castle being re-erected. Cecil Hepworth took this even further and made a movie called The Bathers showing people jumping backwards out of water and having their clothes 'magically' put back on.
The most important changes in special effects came around 1905 in which Edwin Porter created inter titles formed by letters moving into a certain formation from a random array.
Things continued pretty much the same up until 1912 when actors started getting recognized and claiming their share in fame. When before they remained virtually anonymous.
In 1912 we also have the first serial movie; 12 episodes consisting of 1 reel each, it also got printed into a magazine which shows that film also influenced other forms of media.
In 1913 we have the first ever full length movie made called Denmark's Atlantis, which lasted 1 hour and 53 minutes. 1914 practically marked the stop of European films due to WWI, although the film industry there did start to recover, it's never returned to its former glory.
1915 was the first change in camera equipment in a very long time, The Bell and Howl camera allowed for camera men to film a closeup without physically moving the camera, a feat never achieved before.
We then leap to 1920 where the first ever colour animated film was made. Only 2 years later, we were seeing our first 3-D movie, which shows how quickly that the film industry progresses.
During 1920-1925 we also have the big movie companies setting up; Warner Brothers; Paramount etc.
Most notably during 1926 we have the first use of sound effects and music within the film, replacing the need for an orchestra. This pushed the way forward for getting rid of the need of a orchestra during a film viewing, we see this when in 1928 Paramount announced their movies were only going to be 'talkies'
Ever since these early days of film, it's continued to progress and turn into a very profitable business. Now in films we often see extreme special effects, good quality cameras, and movies full of sound. All of this stems back from the early roots of the 18 and 1900's
The first ever noted piece of film took place in 1878, they successfully managed to photograph a horse in fast motion using 24 stereoscopic cameras. We then quickly progressed to 1893, where at the Chicago World's Fair, Thomas Edison displayed his first two inventions to the public eye. These included the Kintegraph, which was the first moving practical picture camera, and the Kinetoscope.
Fairly rapidly Robert W. Paul began to realise that films should be seen by a group rather then an individual. Gradually this led to him creating a film projector that had it's first public appearance in 1895. Furthermore 1895 was a massive year for the progression of film. Auguste and Louis Lumiére invented the cinematograph, a portable 3 in 1 device; Camera; Printer; Projector. The ability for people to carry the camera around with them, spearheaded the way forward for the film industry. Leading up to 1900 the most successful company for motion picture was American Mutoscope who were, as the name suggests, US based.
Originally movies didn't really use any type of techniques, cameras were fastened directly, offering none to very little methods of levelling. As time progressed people wanted more from movies, that's when the idea of putting cameras on moving vehicles was established. The first recorded date to have done this was 1896 on the back platform of a train leaving Jerusalem, 1897 saw the making of the first real rotating camera head by Robert W. Paul, and by 1898 many films were shot from moving trains.
Special effects started to come into play during 1900. The earliest surviving example of this is with G.A. Smith's The House That Jack Built that depicted a boy knocking down a girls castle constructed by building block, a screen then comes up saying reversed showing the castle being re-erected. Cecil Hepworth took this even further and made a movie called The Bathers showing people jumping backwards out of water and having their clothes 'magically' put back on.
The most important changes in special effects came around 1905 in which Edwin Porter created inter titles formed by letters moving into a certain formation from a random array.
Things continued pretty much the same up until 1912 when actors started getting recognized and claiming their share in fame. When before they remained virtually anonymous.
In 1912 we also have the first serial movie; 12 episodes consisting of 1 reel each, it also got printed into a magazine which shows that film also influenced other forms of media.
In 1913 we have the first ever full length movie made called Denmark's Atlantis, which lasted 1 hour and 53 minutes. 1914 practically marked the stop of European films due to WWI, although the film industry there did start to recover, it's never returned to its former glory.
1915 was the first change in camera equipment in a very long time, The Bell and Howl camera allowed for camera men to film a closeup without physically moving the camera, a feat never achieved before.
We then leap to 1920 where the first ever colour animated film was made. Only 2 years later, we were seeing our first 3-D movie, which shows how quickly that the film industry progresses.
During 1920-1925 we also have the big movie companies setting up; Warner Brothers; Paramount etc.
Most notably during 1926 we have the first use of sound effects and music within the film, replacing the need for an orchestra. This pushed the way forward for getting rid of the need of a orchestra during a film viewing, we see this when in 1928 Paramount announced their movies were only going to be 'talkies'
Ever since these early days of film, it's continued to progress and turn into a very profitable business. Now in films we often see extreme special effects, good quality cameras, and movies full of sound. All of this stems back from the early roots of the 18 and 1900's
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