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showing of the invention
The Lumière brothers’ cinematograph was unveiled at a scientific conference held in March 1895, although its official presentation was on December 28 of that same year at the Grand Café Boulevard des Capucines in Paris. -
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Georges Méliès
The French film maker Georges Méliès is owed to much by the illusion of movement. He used the techniques of superimposition of images, fading, double exposures and scale models. There for he managed to produce the film A Trip to the Moon despite the technical precariousness of the early twentieth century. -
technicolor
In 1916, one of the most important techniques of the seventh art arrived: technicolor, which allowed film makers to record films in color. A key turning point for the industry, which was possible thanks to the introduction of a photographic chemical process that managed to introduce color in movie frames. It was the development of the three–color camera (Technicolor three–strip) which would revolutionize the industry technically. -
Sound With Film
In 1927, Alan Crosland premiered his black and white film The Jazz Singer. A work which did not have Technicolor, but changed another one of our senses. We changed from the silent film characterized by Charles Chaplin to one in which sounds accompanied the images projected. The technical breakthrough that made it possible was the Vitaphone. -
Movietone
The Vitaphone, This system, sponsored by Warner Bros and First National studios, allowed recording soundtracks and spoken texts on disks that were then reproduced at the same time as the film. Despite its difficulties, this device completely changed the industry but was soon replaced by the Movietone, invented by Lee de Forest and marketed by Fox from 1927. -
Beat Again
The Movietone, allowed to record audio directly onto the film, an achievement that proved to be a success until 1939 when, again, innovation changed the industry one more time with another system implemented by Edward C. Wente. -
Trying To Keep Up
Two decades after these technological revolutions, film came face to face with what would remain its biggest competitor until the arrival of the Internet: Television. -
Trying To Keep Up (2)
To counteract its popularity, Fox developed a new imaging system known as Cinemascope. This method takes large images by compressing a normal size one within the standard 35 mm frame. The aim is to achieve a ratio between 2.66 and 2.39 times wider than high, thanks to the use of special anamorphic lenses, which were placed in the cameras and screening machines. The introduction of the Cinemascope also inaugurated a new era in film.
