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First Movie
The first movie was shown in the theatres, it had no sound or colour and only lasted 14 minutes. This film was called 'A Trip to the Moon' and it was a french film. This film was directed, produced and written by Georges Méliès. Georges Méliès also starred in the film along side Victor André, Bleuette Bernon, Jeanne d'Alcy and Henri Delannoy. -
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The Silent Era
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First film to use colour
Colour movies were expensive and difficult to produce, so it took a while for all films to use colour.
The Gulf Between was the first film to use technicolour, it was produced in 1917. The first feature-length sound film in color was MGM's The Viking, 1928. It had a synchronized score and sound effects, but no audible dialog. -
Sound
The first movie to have a synchronized sound track was Fritz Lang's Siegfried in 1925, with muscial songs but no dialogue. The Jazz Singer, released in 1927, featured Al Jolson singing a few songs also. When the first all-talking film, Lights of New York, was released in 1928, the films with sound had become more popular. The advent of sound created the question of how to provide for the differing languages of the international audience. -
Sound and Colour
The first film to ever use colour and sound was The Viking however the sound was only sound effects, not actually dialog. -
Animation
The first Mickey Mouse ever created was in Plane Crazy. The first machine patented in the United States that showed animated pictures or movies was a device called the "wheel of life" or "zoopraxiscope". Patented in 1867 by William Lincoln -
First all talking film
The first ever all talking film was The Lights of New York, it was released by Warner Brothers and directed by Bryan Foy. The enthusiasm that the audience had towards the all talking film was so good that by the end of 1929, Hollywood was producing sound films exclusively. -
Colour and dialog
The first film that had both colour and dialog was On the Show. On with the Show is a 1929 American musical film released by Warner Brothers. It was the second colour movie that was released by Warner Brothers. -
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3D Popularity
Greatest popularity of 3D movies was in the early 1950s with 27 3D movies created in 1953. -
Kodak Eastman Color
Royal Journey was the first film to use Kodak's Eastman Color process in place of technicolor. Kodak was founded in 1889 by George Eastman. Kodak is best known for photographic film products. Kodak is an American multinational imaging and photographic equipment, materials and services company headquartered in Rochester, New York, United States and incorporated in New Jersey.
