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First short silent film
The experimental film Roundhay Garden Scene was filmed by Louis Le Prince on 14 October 1888 in Roundhay, Leeds, England. It is considered to be the earliest surviving motion picture. This movie was shot on paper film.
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The Invention of 'chronophotographic' camera
William Friese-Greene was issued patent no. 10131 for his 'chronophotographic' camera. It was apparently capable of taking up to ten photographs per second using perforated celluloid film. A report on the camera was published in the British Photographic News on 28 February 1890.
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The premiere of the Kinetoscope
The premiere of the completed Kinetoscope was held at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences on. The first film publicly shown on the system was Blacksmith Scene; directed by Dickson and shot by Heise, It was produced at the new Edison moviemaking studio, known as the Black Maria. Unfortunately, only one person at a time could use Kinetoscope viewing machine.
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The first British Film
Robert W. Paul and Birt Acres made the first British film Incident at Clovelly Cottage .
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The Lumière brothers’ public first film showing
This date is sometimes considered the debut of the motion picture as an entertainment medium.The Lumière brothers have their first paying audience at the Grand Café Boulevard des Capucines in Paris. This history-making presentation featured ten short films, including their first film, Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory. Each film is 17 meters long, which, when hand cranked through a projector, runs approximately 50 seconds.
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Official world’s first film
The first public showing of The Arrival of the Mail Train an 1895 French short black-and-white silent documentary film directed and produced by Auguste and Louis Lumière took place. The film undoubtedly astonished people unaccustomed to the illusion created by moving images.
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First film showing in Russia
It took place in the summer garden in St. Petersburg. The audience saw the Lumière brothers first films and liked them very much. A few days later the films were shown in Moscow and in summer in Nizhny Novgorod.
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First special effects
The castle of the devil, French short silent film directed by Georges Méliès was demonstrated at the Théâtre Robert-Houdin in Paris. Georges Méliès tried to use special effects in the film to show magical events.
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First color film
Edward Raymond Turner from London patented his colour process on 22 March 1899. He made the earliest film in colour in the world. It was, like other films made at the time, of everyday events. Some of the footage features Mr Turner's children in the garden of their home in Hounslow.It was demonstrated in 1902. The film was restored by the National Media Museum and was shown to audiences in 2012 for the first time.
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The Exposition Universelle
The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris.An improved cylinder-based system, Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre, was developed by Clément-Maurice Gratioulet and Henri Lioret of France, allowing short films of theater, opera, and ballet excerpts to be presented at the Paris Exposition in 1900. Phonorama and yet another sound-film system—Théâtroscope—were also presented at the Exposition.
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First Russian film release
Defence of Sevastopol was one of the most important films in the history of Russian cinema. It was the first feature film made in the Russian Empire and it premiered on October 26 at the Livadia Palace of Tsar Nicolas II. The directors of the film were Aleksandr Khanzhonkov
Vasily Goncharov.
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Release of Battleship Potemkin
It is a 1925 Soviet silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein and produced by Mosfilm. It presents a dramatized version of the mutiny that occurred in 1905 when the crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin rebelled against their officers. Battleship Potemkin influenced the film industry of that time greatly. Battleship Potemkin was named the greatest film of all time at the Brussels World's Fair in 1958.
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Premiere of Metropolis
Metropolis was the first film where special effects played a very important role. The effects expert Eugen Schüfftan created pioneering visual effects for Metropolis. Among the effects used are miniatures of the city, a camera on a swing, and most notably, the Schüfftan process, in which mirrors are used to create the illusion that actors are occupying miniature sets.
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The first sound feature film
The Jazz Singer was an American musical film. A major hit, it was made with Vitaphone, which was at the time the leading brand of sound-on-disc technology. It was directed by Alan Crosland and produced by Warner Bros. The release of the first feature-length motion picture with synchronized sound heralded the commercial ascendance of the "talkies" and the decline of the silent film era.
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The premiere of the first Soviet Union sound film
Road to Life was shown at the Big Hall of Moscow conservatory. It was directed and written by Nikolai Ekk. The film won an award at the 1932 Venice International Film Festival, which went to Nikolai Ekk for Most Convincing Director.
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First film festival in the Soviet Union
Moscow International Film is the film festival first held in Moscow and became regular since 1959.It is held at the end of June and lasts 10 days.The festival's top prize is the statue of Saint George slaying the dragon, as represented on the Coat of Arms of Moscow.Nikita Mikhalkov has been the festival's president since 2000.The filmstudio Lenfilm was awarded the first prize for the films Chapaev,Maxim’s youth,Peasants in 1935https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Московский_международный_кинофестиваль -
Premiere of First Soviet colour film
Grunya Kornakova (the second name – Solovey-Solovushka) was made by Nikolay Ekk, filmstudio Mezhrabpomfilm. It was first shown at the cinema “Khudozhestvenny” in Moscow.
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London Film Festival
The British Film Institute London Film Festival is an annual film festival held in the United Kingdom. It is held in the second half of October with cooperation from the British Film Institute. It screens more than 300 films, documentaries and shorts from approximately 50 countries. Star of London and The Sutherland Trophy is given to the winners.
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First Oscar for feature film
War and Peace (1966–67) was the first Russian film to receive an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. It was Sergei Bondarchuk's adaption of Tolstoy's novel.
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First Nika award
The first Nika award was given toTengiz Abuladze for Repentance. The Nika Award is the main annual national film award in Russia presented by the Russian Academy of Cinema Arts and Science. It was established in 1987 in Moscow by Yuli Gusman.
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