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History

The History of film spans over a hundred years, from the latter part of the 19th century to the beginning of the 21st.




1.Birth of film: The two second experimental film: Roundhay Garden Scene


-In France, in 1895, Auguste and Louis Lumière invented the cinematograph.











2.The silent era: Inventors and producers had tried from the beginnings of moving pictures to marry the image with synchronous sound, but no practical method was devised until the late 1920s.

3.Sound era: Experimentation with sound film technology, was virtually constant throughout the silent era, but had been difficult to overcome.

4.Era of color:black and white movies started to lose importance due to the arrival of new techniques of colouring.

5.Special effects:The early 1990s saw the development of a commercially successful independent cinema in the United States.



6.Nestor studios, Hollywood's first movie studio.

Nowadays, the most famous image of Hollywood is this:

Silent black&white movies

-A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound.
-Most films were silent before 1920s


They used to have intertitles.





They had music too.


Most of them were short,only a few minutes

-Acting tecniques: The silent actor had to emphasize body language and facial expression.

-Nitrocellulose was used as the first flexible film base.




-The silent films were recorded in a slower way than sonourous films.
In silent films:16 to 23 frames per second
In sonourous films:about 24 frames per second


-Chaplin is considered one of the most creative and influential personalities in the silent-film era.

Black & white acoustic movies

There had been a lot of attempts to find the way to record sonorous films, but after a long time, they found the way.


Problems of the sonorous cinema:

- The synchronization.

- Volume of the reproduction.

- The difficulty of the cameras to record the voice.





"The Jazz Singer":






First Chaplin´s dialogue film: "The great dictator" (1940), Funny Moments

Cinema in colour

Color movies started with the film itself in 1895 with Edisons's Kinetoscope,and the hand-painted Annabelle's Dance




Between 1900-1935, many colouring techniques were used:
1.Hand painting

2.Pathé colour


3.Film tinting:
specific colours.Red for fire, blue for night.

4.Toning:
a color effect.The dark parts of the image are replaced with a color.

5.Sonochrome:
Eastman Kodak, 1929.17 colours.

6.Additive color
-Kinemacolor: 1906.Invented by Edward R. Turner and George Albert Smith.


-Biocolor
-Dufaycolor: 1931.
They were not economical.

7.Subractive color-TECHNICOLOR

It was a revolution because of its high quality.
-Two-color Technicolor. There were many types of this.

-Three-strip Technicolor.1924. It reproduced all the spectrum.
These are some of the films with this technique.




"Flip the Frog"















"The Toll of the Sea"









8.Kodachrome(1935)





9.Eastmancolor(1952): an improved version for Hollywood productions.

10.3-D(1953):When Technicolor made their own stereoscopic.

11.Recent developements- CD,VHS,DVD.

Special effects

The illusions used in the film, television, and entertainment industries to simulate the imagined events in a story are traditionally called special effects.



The most important innovation in special effecs has been the development of computers.

.) By 1995, films such as Toy Story underscored that the distinction between live-action films and animated films was no longer clear.



Jurassic Park: realistic dinosaurs were made by computer.
Star Wars: space was creted.
The lord of the rings: larges armies (computer) and creatures (make-up)

Using special effects can bring some problems such as movie mistakes:

Cartoons

The history of film animation began in the 1890s, with the earliest days of silent films.


Techniques to create cartoons:





One of the first animated cartoons was "fantasmagorie" in 1908 by Émile Cohl.




One of the most famous cartoon, Mickey Mouse, was invented 80 years ago and he made his first film debut in Steamboat Willie.

Problems, Benefits and Spectators

PROBLEMS


Piracy has become one of the biggest problems of film world.But why?
There is one main reason:the increasement of prices. Nowadays, the tickets for the cinema cost 6.50€ that is quantity that people don't want to pay.
Isn't true that people would go to see movies more often if they were cheaper?


So people have to find different ways to be able to watch those films.One of them is piracy.


Piracy is to make illegal copies of music,audiovisual or literature works, infringing author's rights.
They are usually downloaded from the internet and almost everybody do this.




BENEFITS

Graph with the takings of films in cinema in Spain, 2007.




SPECTATORS

Games

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