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History of Film/Motion Picture
This TimeToast presentation tells of the history of Film/Motion Picture beginning with Eadweard Muybridge and a bet made... -
First motion Picture
Former California Governor Leland Stanford helped fund Muybridge's experiment to settle a bet that "Horses can fly". Muybridge emulsions and worked on shudder devices. -
Early motion picture exhibition device
The Kinetoscope was designed to show films to be viewed by one individual at a time through a peephole viewer window at the top of the device -
Lumiere Bros short films public screening
The commercial public screening of tens of Lumière brothers' short films in Paris -
Movie screening
The Melbourne Athenaeum started to screen movies -
Multiple shot movies
The movie "Come Along, Do!" was one of the first movies to have more than one shot -
First use of animation
The first use of stop-motion animation of short fims in 1899 -
During World War 1
The first years of the first world warwere a complex trasitional period for film. Everything changed from short-reel progrrames to feature films. Venues became bigger and higher priced. -
New techniques
a new idea was taken over from still photography was soft focus with some shots being intentionally thrown out of focus for expressive effects -
Film art
The general trend in the development of cinema led from the U.S. was using new devices for expression of the narrative content -
Technicolor
With the release of Becky sharp, audiences could now see films in technicolor -
World War II and aftermath
The desire for wartime propaganda against the opposition created a renaissance in the film industry in Britain and other countries associated with World War II -
Golden age of Asian cinema
After World War II, may of the most acclaimed Asian films of all time were produced during the decades -
1980s
The 1980s audience began watching films on their home VCRs. Film studios tried banning films at home as a violation of copyrights, but failed. Sales of rental films became a second venue for films -
1990s
The 1990s saw the development of commercially successful independent cinemas in the U.S. Although cinema was increasingly dominated by special effects films, had significant commercial success. -
Recent years
There has been an increasing globalization of cinema during the years with foreign language films increasing in popularity in the States and a revival of 3D film popularity
