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The World First Motion Film
The world's earliest surviving motion-picture film, showing actual consecutive action is called Roundhay Garden Scene. It's a short film directed by French inventor Louis Le Prince. Even though it is only 2.11 seconds long. It has been names the first movie ever created. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knD2EhjGwWI -
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Kinetoscope Invention
In 1891, Thomas Edison created the prototype of the Kinetoscope. The Kinetoscope was an early motion-picture device in which the images were viewed through a peephole. Then in 1894 the first Kinetoscope parlour was opened by The Holland Brothers. There were a total of five Kinetoscopes set up with a different film in each one and customers paid five cents per film or twenty-five cents total to view them all. -
The Cinématographe
In December 1895, the Lumiere brothers invented something of their own. It was called the Cinématographe. The Cinématographe was a three-in-one device that could record, develop and project motion pictures. Although it was similar to the Kinetoscope, it was not the same thing. The Lumiere brothers gave credit to Thomas Edison though, saying that their invention was based off of the Kinetoscope. The Cinematographe would later go down in history. -
The Introduction of Colour
When Movies, Shows and Photos first came out, they were all in black and white. This was simply because the technology for color films either didn't exist, or was way too expensive for anyone to make money off color movies. As time progressed and the film industry grew, the cost of colour film dropped. The first film to include natural colour was A Visit to the Seaside
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The Rise of the Film Industry
In 1914, the film industry was already quite popular in countries such as Europe, Russia and Scandinavia. As time went on and the industry grew, the films became longer. As more people paid to watch films, the industry invested their time and money into the production, studios and exhibitions. Large studios and cinemas were built around the world popularising them and the industry began to grow exceedingly quickly. -
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Beginning of Sound
On the 6th of August 1926, Warner Bros came out with a 2 hour long film called, Don Juan. This movie used The Vitaphone sound-on-disk system to add music to the entire movie. That was the first film to include music. In 1927, the movie 'The Jazz Singer' was released. That film was the first feature-length movie incorporating synchronised dialogue. -
The Golden Age
By the time it was the 30's, cinema had become extremely popular and almost every film included synchronised sound and not all, but some films even had complete colour. This boost of popularity gave rise to the 'Golden Age of Hollywood'. In countries like Britain, America and Russia had up to 85 million visits to the cinema per year! Movies such as, 'The Wizard of Oz', 'Snow White and the Twelve Dwarfs' and 'Robin Hood' were all made in the 30's. -
Cinema vs Television
In the late 40's and early 50's television shows were extremely popular and for cinemas to stay as popular they had to up their game. To try to win back audiences from TV, the movie industry promoted the color, better sound, big screens and emotional power of the theatre experience. The popularity of each equaled out around the mid to late 50's. -
Future of Cinema
As the cinema industry continues to grow, create and become more advanced, the way that we view the cinema will continue to change. Although streaming apps are now available and agreeably more popular, the cinema industry is still popular and continues to grow. New technological effects will begin to enter the cinema, some already with us, such as 'Avatar' and 'Jurassic Park'
