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How It Started
There was a bet that was questioning if a horse ever lifted all 4 feet off the ground at the same time. Eadweard Muybridge was the photographer who got 16 cameras in a row and took a picture each second.They quickly realized that these picture put together looked like it was actually moving!While this technically wasn't the first "film" it definitely was an important step in the film industry. -
First Feature Length Film
The Great Train Robbery was the first movie to actually have a narrative.It was produced by Edwin Porter and it was the first film to have a substantial run time of 12 Minutes and 14 Seconds! -
The Rise of Charlie Chaplin
The Tramp was Charlie Chaplin's first memorable film. This film is so historical because it made Chaplin an icon in the Silent Film Era. -
Multiple Tones
The Kid was the first movie that holds more than just one genre.Its starts with a sad story of a boy who is found on the side of the road, and becomes a comedy where the man and the boy work together to make money! -
Sound!
The Jazz Singer was the first movie that had sound and actual talking in it!These films were called Talkies and they became the new way of film. -
Color!
The Wizard of Oz was one of the first films ever made to be released with color!This was huge because color was being experimented as early as 1912 and they finally got it down! -
Real World Events In Cinema
The Great Dictator was one of few films that brought real world topics into movies.This movie did so well because theres a speech at the end of it that really holds up to this day! -
Animation
Animation was just starting to get popular in the early 1950s.One of the first animated films was Cinderella.And this also started the Classic Disney Era. -
CGI
CGI is Computer Generated Imagery,and you see it all the time in films nowadays but it was just getting popular in the 1970s.One of the earliest films to do this was Jurassic Park and it sparked many films afterwords! -
Star Wars
Star Wars was and still is one of the biggest movies of the century!This movie started Movements, Creativity ,and sparked hope in the lives of people after the depression of Vietnam. -
Computer Generated Movies
Computer generated movies were a huge step in the film industry because all we had before this was live action, and hand drawn films!The first movie to be completely computer generated was Toy Story -
Cinematic Universes
Cinematic Universes have forever changed the way movies will be made because for the first time ever movies that were under different titles and could share the same story line!This was great because you didn't have to worry about world building and new characters because it was all under one big story!The best example of this is Marvel's Avengers!
