1. History of Cinematography and
Short Films

2. The Lumiere Brothers
 1881
 Auguste and Louis were the sons of a
portrait painter who were both technically
minded. In 1881 they invented 'the dry plate‘.

3. Steam Train
 1895
 The Lumiere brothers had invented
Cinematography by combing Projector,
printer and camera. The Steam train was the
subject for the first ever projected film. -
L'Arrivée d'un train à la Ciotat, (Arrival of a
Train, 1895)

4. La Voyage dans la Lune
 1902
 'A Voyage to the Moon' Georges Méliès,
produced, wrote and directed the film by
himself. It is the best-known of the hundreds
of films made by Méliès, and the moment in
which the spaceship lands in the Moon's eye
remains one of the most iconic images in the
history of cinema. In the magazine 'The
village voice', it was named one of the 100
greatest films of the 20th century.

5. Chronophographe
 1903
 Etienne-Jules Marey created a
Chronophotographe gun which took 12
consecutive frames a second that was all
recorded on the same picture.

6. The Great Train Robbery
 1903
 Edwin S. Porter's The Great Train Robbery
was cinemas first modern storyline. This was
the first epic western with a cast of 40 actors
that worked to an actual script.

7. Charlie Chaplin
 1910
 Famous for being in front of and behind the
camera, also famous for his funny walk and
wearing a bowler hat. He has appeared in
many short films

8. Luis Bunuel
 In 1929 Luis made his first picture and it was
called 'the most famous short film ever
made'. Six of Buñuel's films are included in
Sight & Sound's 2012 critic's poll of the top
250 films of all time.

9. Edwin Porter
 1929
 An early film Pioneer worked as a director as
a part of Thomas Edison's company. Porter
became the most influential filmmaker in the
United States.

10. The Death of Short Films
 After the 1930s, the short films were starting to die.
There were fewer short films. Most of these short
films were produced in-house. Sometimes these
short films were financed by big film companies.
There were companies that would force owners of
short films to sell the short films to the big
companies. These big companies or theatre-chain-
owners would then turn these short films into big-
name features. This deed was called block
booking. The Supreme Court of the United States
declared block booking to be illegal.

11. Le-Prince
 1935
 Louis Le-Prince was an inventor who shot
the first moving pictures on paper film using
a single lens camera. He has been known as
the "Father of Cinematography" since 1930

12. Hal Roach
 1940
 Hal Roach, for example, moved Laurel and
Hardy full-time into feature films after 1935,
and halved his popular Our Gang films to
one reel. By the 1940s, he'd moved out of
short films altogether (though MGM
continued the Our Gang shorts until 1944)

13. Short Film Festivals
 North America's first and longest running
short film festival is the Yorkton Film Festival,
which was established in 1947 and continues
today. It produces publicity for filmmakers
and the opportunity for them to showcase
their work.

14. Francois Trauffant
 1948
 He was a French influential film director,
screenwriter, producer, actor, and film critic,
as well as one of the founders of the French
New Wave. His film career lasted over a
quarter of a century, and he remains an icon
of the French film industry

15. French New Wave
 1950
 They were a group of French filmmakers who
rejected the period pieces that were being
made in France and created their own new
style of filmmaking.

16. The Rise of Television
 In 1955, a big competitor of short films
appeared. It is the rise of television. Since
then, short films have been attended to by
only independent filmmakers. However,
television programming included
broadcasting old short films or short subjects.
These short films were those that had been
sold to television stations. By the end of
1960s, short films eventually disappeared.

17. Ridley Scott
 1967
 He formed the advertising production
company RSA (Ridley Scott Associates) in
1967 and spent the next 10 years making
some of the best known and best loved TV
adverts ever shown on British television.

18. Ashvin Kumar
 2004
 Independent Indian Filmmaker. His award-winning
short film is 'Little Terrorist' (2004) Ashvin is the
youngest Indian writer/director with an Academy
Award Oscar nomination, he's also the first Indian
to be nominated at the European Film Academy
with his film Little Terrorist which has been part of
official selections to over 130 film festivals, winning
awards in 25 of them, including the British
Academy of Film and Television (BAFTA) LA.

19. Youtube
 2005
 YouTube is the most used video website on
the internet. Anyone can upload and view
videos from around the world, allowing
filmmakers to showcase their work.

20. Christopher Nolan/ Tim Burton
 2012
 Two famous directors who produce both
feature length and short films. They have
been seen as rivals at times due to their
similar styles of filmmaking.