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Cave Paintings
Scientists think that they may have found much older “moving pictures,” in caves in France and Spain. In some of these caves, sequences of animals have been drawn by ancient men, and when torch light flickers over them, the animals seem to move. These cave paintings are 30,000 years old! -
First Movie
What was the first movie ever made? There are a number of contenders, though photographic pioneer Eadweard Muybridge’s “The Horse in Motion,” made in 1878, is the first. It was a series of stereoscopic images of a galloping horse.He used his zoopraxiscope, which was an early type of movie projector, to show his movies to a paying public, making the Hall the first commercial movie theater. -
First Sound Movie
The earliest film with a narrative was “The Roundhay Garden Scene,” made in 1888 by inventor Louis Le Prince. It’s 2.1 seconds long! Although, three German inventors patented the "Tri Ergon" process. In 1922, they made a glow lamp light modulator for variable density recording of sound. They could transfer sound vibrations into electrical waveforms which was recorded onto the edge of the film through a photographic process. A waveform could be amplified and played to the audience. -
First Theater
The first dedicated "picture house" was built in New Orleans in 1896. However, theater-goers were going to have to wait a while for anything good to watch - Hollywood's first full-length film, The Squaw Man, wasn't released until 1913. -
First Color Movie
It's no Hollywood movie, but the effects have everyone ooh-ing and aah-ing. That's because the film, discovered in a tin that's over 100 years old, has the world's first color movie.The stunning clips, showed by the National Media Museum, were shot in 1901-1902 by Edward Turner, a British photographer. He colored his films by recording frames through red, green and blue filters. He then projected the images and put them on top of each other to create the wonderful clips of birds and animals. -
Popcorn, Air Conditioning, and Cup Holders
Popcorn was first served in movie theaters in 1912, so it was actually in theaters before full-length films.
While the first air-conditioned movie theater was built way back in 1922.
The first cup holders didn't make it into cinemas until AMC Theaters introduced them in 1981. -
First Drive-in Theater
New Jersey was home to the very first drive-in theater, which was built in 1933. The drive-in peaked in popularity in the '50s and '60s but there are now less than 1000 of them left in North America. -
IMAX Screens
The IMAX system has its roots in EXPO '67 in Montreal, Canada where multi-screen films are the hit of the fair. A small group of Canadian filmmakers and entrepreneurs decided to design a new system using a single, powerful projector, rather than the multiple projectors used at that time. The result was the IMAX motion picture projection system, which revolutionizes cinema. -
Longest Movie
The longest cinematic film of all time is called "Berlin Alexanderplatz" (1980) and runs for 931 minutes. -
Movie Update
New Movies
Nov 1: Free Throw
Nov 2: The Man with the Iron Fist, Vamps, Flight, Wreck-It Ralph, High Ground, Jack and Diane, Amber Alert, The Bay, This Must Be The Place, Miami Connection, North Sea Texas, The Details, A Liar's Autobiography, Bones Brigade: An Autobiography, A Late Quartet -
My Prediction
My prediction is there will be movies you can feel, smell, and taste. Instead of watching the movie you put something on your brain for one second and the memory of watching the movie is stuck in your head. You can buy the memories in a normal store. -
EasyBib Citations
Works Cited: Fran. "The First Movies Ever Made." St. Charles Public Library. N.p., 9 July 2012. Web. 29 Oct. 2012. http://www.stcharleslibrary.org/wordpress/movies/the-first-movies-ever-made/. Grenoble, Ryan. "World's First Color Movie Discovered In England's National Media Museum (VIDEO)." The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, 12 Sept. 2012. Web. 30 Oct. 2012. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/12/worlds-first-color-movie-_n_1879388.html.
