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This TimeToast presentation tells of the history of Film/Motion Picture beginning with Eadweard Muybridge and a bet made...
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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.
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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
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The commercial public screening of tens of Lumière brothers' short films in Paris
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The Melbourne Athenaeum started to screen movies
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The movie "Come Along, Do!" was one of the first movies to have more than one shot
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The first use of stop-motion animation of short fims in 1899
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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.
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a new idea was taken over from still photography was soft focus with some shots being intentionally thrown out of focus for expressive effects
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The general trend in the development of cinema led from the U.S. was using new devices for expression of the narrative content
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With the release of Becky sharp, audiences could now see films in technicolor
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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
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After World War II, may of the most acclaimed Asian films of all time were produced during the decades
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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
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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.
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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
