{History of Film.

Shannon Webb

The 1800’s.

Various image projection devices were created for enjoyment at the home. These were small devices called motion toys that were very different from the standard magic lantern.

From this concept, inventions were made for projecting images.

In 1872, the first ever movie was created as an experiment. The man behind this movie was Eadweard Muybridge. His experiment with a horse, twelve cameras and thread attached to the camera shutters helped him use the Zoopraxiscope, to create the motion photography but also our first movie.

In 1885, George Eastman and William H. created the very first reel of film using sensitized paper created with a gelatin emulsion.

In 1886, the sensitized paper created with a gelatin emulsion was then replaced with celluloid which was a synthetic plastic material.

The 1900’s. - Editing.

In the 1800’s editing was never focused on fully due to the excitement of the first motion photography. In the 1900’s, editing was slowly coming into this motion photography, this then let the directors have the opportunity to make their films perfect by changing the angles in the scene that was shot or to redo the scene all together.

The 1900’s the transitions of distant shots to close up shots were first created. This was done by mounting the camera man on wheels and then on a track before then physically moving the camera closer to what was being shot.

This ancient movie technique was used for the very first time in the movie filmed in 1904 called Photographing of a Female Crook.

The 1900’s. - Cinematic times

In the 1900’s, the repetition of a scene would be played over and over again but from all different angles. This was always seen in that era, to be the coolest thing to happen in movies. An example of this would be in A trip to the moon in 1902. This method was always seen as quite comical.

In 1903, The Great Train Robbery was directed by Edwin S. Porter. It was a 10 minute long action film that was based on the true story of the train robbery of 1900. This film used a number of innovative techniques, such as parallel editing and jump and cross-cuts. In a jump and cross-cut, two separate scenes of action are being shown on one screen and are split by a line going vertically or diagonally. A narrative story was told along with the film, making it one of the first movies to be plot-based as well as one of the most famous movies of its time.

The 1900’s. – Nickelodeon eraAround the year 1905, an inexpensive way to view movies was created - the 5 cent movie theatre.

The period of time that these theatres were being built was called the Nickelodeon era because because the viewing was only 5 cents.

The 5-cent movie theatre helped movies make the transition into the 1920's by ultimately increasing the appeal of film and helped bring in a larger profit.

World War 1 gave the film makers an opportunity to film and work by filming documentaries. After World War 1, there was a change and a beginning of a cultural phenomena was apparent. This was the rise of Hollywood.

On June the 19th 1905, the first cinema was opened in Pittsburgh Penn. This was the creation of Harry Davis and John P.

Three children playing with sunflowers in a backyard is the first color moving picture ever made. The footage was captured in 1902 by color film pioneer Edward Raymond Turner.

The Jazz Singer was the first film made with sound. In June 1925 Warner Brothers acquired the revolutionary sound-on-disc technology that George Groves had helped to develop at Bell Labs. There was to be no dialogue in the film. Instead the audio accompaniment was an orchestral soundtrack provided by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra supplemented by sound effects for enhanced realism.

In the Jazz Singer, the speaking belong to the voice Al Jolson when he said Wait a minute, wait a minute, you ain't heard nothin' yet.