This might be a stretch by some standards; by others, this was the beginning. Ah, but About. Not only was this camera portable, but it processed the film as well as projected the moving film on screen. And in a true capitalistic spirit, Louis and brother Auguste presented the first real cinema show to a paying audience at the Grand Caf? But aha, a year earlier in , the Edison Company introduced the Kinetoscope, a device for individually looking at film through a viewer.
This was the first equipment to use 35mm film and the inventor was W. Over the next three years, almost a thousand Kinetoscopes were manufactured. So what did they watch? Edison also produced some films for their viewing enjoyment. The first screening had only attracted 30 people, but after word spread of the incredible experience, thousands wanted to see the moving pictures in early January See also: These beautiful antique photos were made with potato starch.
However, the Kinetoscope could show a motion picture to only one person at a time. When he returned home from Paris, Antoine encouraged his sons to begin working on a new invention.
At the end of the show there was complete chaos. Everyone wondered how such a result was obtained. We can now record and play back life. We will be able to see our families again long after they are gone. They focused their ever present curiosity on tackling another technical challenge: color photography. The autochrome remained the most widely used photographic plate capable of capturing color for more than 30 years. All rights reserved.
History Magazine. Come One, Come All. Please be respectful of copyright. Unauthorized use is prohibited. La Vie en Rose. By the late s, the silent film industry reached its peak. Something else was coming.
One of the greatest development in film production was the introduction of sound on film. The studios were at the top of their game, by the time sound stepped onto the scene. It was a new element, and the major studios began to trip up, thanks to the new addition. Not only were they slow on the uptake, they were furious about it, even to the point of not using it altogether.
The only exception to this was Warner Bros. Everything changed once the first Vitaphone film with sound released in The Jazz Singer. Filmmakers had to adapt to the new technology and actors had to adapt as well.
It was a major success, one that saw sound as an important tool in film production. Up to now, films were either about everyday life or stories of supernatural places. German cinema did something brand new; they introduced German Expressionism. Filmmakers came up with original indoor film sets and they mastered lighting like no one else had. They realised that the way a scene is lit drastically affects how it makes people feel.
They played around with soft and harsh lighting to get their desired effect. Films like Psycho or I Confess were heavily influenced by German Expressionism and it is rather evident in the way the films are lighted. The high contrast and the eerie use of shadow figures all hark to the strange shapes and distorted sets of the old German Expressionist films. Not only did Expressionism inspire the classic horror films, but it also inspired other genres like film noir, and would go on to inspire thrillers and other fantasy related films.
Read about German Expressionism here. French films made in these years reflected how ordinary people were dealing with the war. They employed Poetic Realism , meaning that they treated real subjects in an imaginative way.
Technicolor was first introduced in Before then, colour was added to film by painting the photographs or using a stenciling system that cut out sections of the frame and tinted them.
Both options were time-consuming and produced colour that did not look natural. Films shot in technicolor used a three-strip camera that captured the scene in cyan, magenta and yellow, then put these colours together. With Technicolor, red and yellow looked brilliant so nearly every film from the 30s onwards had a fire scene. Three strip cameras were very heavy and usually supported by a tripod. As a result, Technicolor films were rarely shot outside. The Three Little Pigs was one of the first films made in Technicolor.
The films released in this time dealt with crime, corruption, greed and cruelty. The Great Depression made times for working Americans very difficult. The noir story arch and underlying themes aligned with the burden felt by most Americans.
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