history of cinema
TIMELINE
1860 ERA
1867 The first machine patented in the United States that showed animated pictures was a device called the “wheel of life” or “zoopraxiscope”. Patented by William Lincoln, moving drawings or photographs were watched through a slit.
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1900-1999 ERA
1905 Cooper Hewitt mercury lamps make it practical to shoot films indoors without sunlight.
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1906 The first animated cartoon is produced
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1909 There are about 9,000 movie theaters in the United States. The typical film is only a single reel long, ten- twelve minutes in length, and the actors were anonymous.
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1911 Credits begin to appear at the beginning of motion pictures
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1912 Carl Laemmle organizes Universal Pictures, which will become the first major studio.
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1925 Western Electric and Warner Bros. agree to develop a system for movies with sound.
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1929 The first Academy Awards are announced, with the award for the best picture in 1927 going to ‘Wings’.
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1934 The first drive-in movie theater opens in New Jersey, USA.
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1937 Walt Disney’s first full-length animated feature, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, is released
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1995 The first feature length computer-animated feature, Toy Story, was produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Disney.
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2000-now era
2005 The Dark Knight was the first major feature film to have been at least partially shot in IMAX technology.
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2010 onward 3D films gained increasing popularity with many other films being released in 3D. The best critical and financial success was the feature film animation of Walt Disney Pictures/Pixar’s Toy Story 3.
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2012 Titanic was re-released in a special 3D version to celebrate the 100th anniversary.
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men changed the history of movies
Georges Mélièsa French illusionist and film director who led many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema. Méliès was an especially prolific innovator in the use of special effects, popularizing such techniques as substitution splices, multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, dissolves, and hand-painted color. He was also one of the first filmmakers to use storyboards.His films include A Trip to the Moon (1902) and The Impossible Voyage (1904), both involving strange, surreal journeys somewhat in the style of Jules Verne, and are considered among the most important early science fiction films, though their approach is closer to fantasy.
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A MOVIE BASED ON GEORGE MELLES LIFE
Hugo is a 2011 historical adventure drama film directed and co-produced by Martin Scorsese and adapted for the screen by John Logan. Based on Brian Selznick's book The Invention of Hugo Cabret, it is about a boy who lives alone in the Gare Montparnasse railway station in Paris in the 1930s. A co-production between Graham King's GK Films and Johnny Depp's Infinitum Nihil, the film stars Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen, Asa Butterfield, Chloë Grace Moretz, Ray Winstone, Emily Mortimer, Jude Law, Helen McCrory, and Christopher Lee.
COPYRIGHTS OWNED TO HUGO
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