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Louis Le Prince
In October 1888, Le Prince filmed moving picture sequences using his single-lens camera and Eastman's paper film. These were several years before the work of competing inventors such as Auguste and Louis Lumière and Thomas Edison.
He was never able to perform a planned public demonstration in the US because he mysteriously vanished from a train in1890. His body and luggage were never found, but, over a century later, the police found a photograph of a drowned man whocould have been him. -
Etienne-Jules Marley
Marey's chronophotographic gun was made in 1882, this instrument was capable of taking 12 consecutive frames a second, and the most interesting fact is that all the frames were recorded on the same picture, using these pictures he studied animals. Some call it Marey’s "animated zoo". Marey also made movies. They were at a high speed and of excellent image quality. His research on how to capture and diplay moving images helped the emerging field of cinematography. -
The Lumiere Brothers
The Lumières held their first private screening of projected motion pictures in 1895. This history-making presentation featured ten short films, including their first film, Sortie des Usines Lumière à Lyon (Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory). their role in the history of film was exceedingly brief. There most famous film was Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat, which supposedly had audience fleeing in terror as a celluloid locomotive hurtled towards them. -
Le voyage dans la lune
Trip to the Moon, is a 1902 French silent film directed by Georges Méliès. it is the best-known of the hundreds of films made by Méliès, and the moment in which the spaceship lands in the Moon's eye remains one of the most iconic images in the history of cinema. It was named one of the 100 greatest films of the 20th century by The Village Voice, ranking at #84, and in 2002 it became the first work designated as a UNESCO World Heritage film. -
Edwin Stanton Porter
Edwin Stanton Porter was an American early film pioneer, most famous as a director with Thomas Edison's company. Of over 250 films created by Porter, the most important films include Life of an American Fireman (1903) and The Great Train Robbery (1903). -
Luis Buñuel
Often associated with the surrealist movement of the 1920s, Buñuel created films from the 1920s through the 1970s. His work spans two continents, three languages, and nearly every film genre, including experimental film, documentary, melodrama, satire, musical, erotica, comedy, romance, costume dramas, fantasy, crime film, adventure, and western. Despite this variety, filmmaker John Huston believed that, regardless of genre, a Buñuel film is so distinctive as to be instantly recognizable -
Charlie Chaplin
A English comic actor and filmmaker who rose to fame in the silent era. Chaplin became a worldwide icon through his screen persona "the Tramp" and is considered one of the most important figures of the film industry. His career spanned more than 75 years, from a child in the Victorian era to close to his death at the age of 88, and encompassed both adulation and controversy. -
François Truffaut
A French influential film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film critic, as well as one of the founders of the French New Wave. In a film career lasting over a quarter of a century, he remains an icon of the French film industry, having worked on over 25 films. Truffaut's film The 400 Blows came to be a defining film of the New Wave genre. -
Ridley Scott
Scott is known for his atmospheric, highly concentrated visual style, which has influenced many directors.
Scott has been nominated for three Academy Awards for Directing (for Thelma and Louise, Gladiator and Black Hawk Down), plus two Golden Globe and two BAFTA Awards. In 2003, Scott was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace for his "services to the British film industry" -
French New Wave
Although never a formally organized movement, the New Wave filmmakers were linked by their self-conscious rejection of the literary period pieces being made in France and written by novelists, along with their spirit of youthful iconoclasm, the desire to shoot more current social issues on location, and their intention of experimenting with the film form. "New Wave" is an example of European art cinema. -
Tim Burton
A American film director, film producer, writer, poet, artist and animator. He is famous for his dark, gothic, macabre and quirky take on horror and fantasy style movies such as Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow, Corpse Bride, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Dark Shadows and Frankenweenie, and for blockbusters such as Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Batman, its first sequel Batman Returns, Planet of the Apes, Charlie and the Ch -
Christopher Nolan
Since his debut in 1998, Nolan has directed eight features, ranging from low budget independent films to large-scale, major studio-supported blockbusters. In total, they have grossed approximately $1.6 billion in North America and $3.5 billion worldwide. Nolan has been described as "one of the most innovative storytellers and image makers at work in movies today". -
Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival
Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival takes place annually in Bristol (UK). The festival is the umbrella for Brief Encounters and Animated Encounters, which together present one of the world’s best-known showcases and meeting points for international short and animated film talent. “The UK's leading competitive short film festival"', Encounters seeks to promote the importance of short film as a means to develop and progress the next generation of filmmakers and animators. -
Ashvin Kumar
Ashvin Kumar is an independent Indian filmmaker, who has written, directed and produced a wide range of films, including the documentaries Inshallah, Kashmir (2012) and Inshallah, Football (2010); feature-length ecological thriller The Forest (2012); award-winning short film Little Terrorist (2004); the yet unreleased coming-of-age tale Dazed in Doon and his debut film Road to Ladakh (2003) starring Irrfan Khan. -
YouTube
Most of the content on YouTube has been uploaded by individuals, although media corporations including CBS, the BBC, Vevo, Hulu, and other organizations offer some of their material via the site, as part of the YouTube partnership program. Unregistered users can watch videos, while registered users can upload an unlimited number of videos. Videos considered to contain potentially offensive content are available only to registered users at least 18 years old. YouTube, LLC was bought by Google -
Colchester Film Festival
Colchester Film Festival is an international film festival taking place at the Firstsite visual arts facility in Colchester. The festival is dedicated to discovering and showcasing the best filmmaking talent from the UK and around the world as well as hosting a series of workshops and master classes to give audiences an insight into the creative process behind films and inspire the next generation of filmmakers.
