Included significant films, stars, directors and updates in terms of technology from 1895-2005

1. The History of
Films

2. Made by lumière brothers
Small hand-held camera, printer
and projector
Films could be shot anywhere
Used to present the first film to a
paying audience (1895)

3. • Workers leaving the Lumière factory
• (AKA) La Sortie des Ouviers de L'Usine Lumiere a Lyon
• About: workers leaving for lunch break
• Black and White documentary
• Filmed in 1895, but released the movie in 1896

4. • Annabelle Serpentine Dance
• Short film of a women dancing, her veil changes colours as she
dances
• Early example of hand-tinted films
• often used to stop films being pirated/ or used to set the mood
• Played on a Kinetoscope (Edison Studios)

5. First film to be showed to a paying audience
Played in the USA
Was considered a “threat to morality”
Since public displays of affection wasn't
common

6. Annabelle Serpentine Dance

7. First female director
Alice Guy-Blaché
It was a comedic fantasy
Was hand painted directly onto the film

8. Audience member at the
unveiling of the
cinématographe
Made his own camera from
an Animatographe

9. Fade in/ Fade out
Overlapping dissolves
Stop motion photography
“discovered” the jump cut after his camera jammed
Used this techniques to make object appear and disappear in
films

10. by george Melies
Significant due to special
effects
Filmed using only 1 angle
First Sci-fi movie
Camera never moved

11. Joined Vitascope marketing company in
1895
One of the first directors to shoot at night
Influenced by Méliès
(He was also know to illegally duplicated his
work)
Director of The Great Train Robbery
Understood and created narrative continuity

12. Directed by Edwin Porter
Links several shots to form a
narrative
Had multi-angle perspectives
(Playing scenes from inside
AND outside)
Used crosscutting to achieve
continuity and tension

13. First Narrative Film
(first film to tell a story)
First “true” western film
Film first featured the classic shooting at a man’s feet to
make him dance
First camera panning technique used
Features crosscutting for rhythm and pace
(Cutting between 2 scenes happening at the same time)

14. By J stewart Blackton
First ever animated film
Made by stop motion animation
Used a blackboard to draw on and erase
images
No narrative content

15. Innovative refiner
Used cross-cutting, close-ups and fade-outs
to cultivate a deeper, more emotional
atmosphere

16. Controversial racial content
(themed around KKK)
Caused a lot of protests, and riots
Was banned afterwards as a result
Valued for story-telling forms, and its use of
continuity editing

17. By Disney
Distributed by RKO studios
(since Disney didn't have it’s
own distribution company)
First full-length feature
animation in colour
First film with an official
soundtrack

18. First X-rated film to
receive an oscar for
best picture

19. By Disney
Sequel to The Rescuers (1977)
First animation to use a Computer Animation
Production System throughout the entire film
Digitally inked all animation cells

20. First film to not be shot at a location
Used green screens for the entire film
However, it wasn't popular at the cinema
But inspire many other directors to use this
technique in movies
(eg. Sin City, 300)

21. First all asian Hollywood
production

22. The History of Film ~ David Parkinson
The Story of Film ~ Mark Cousins
The World History of Animations
Film Editing ~ Don Fairservice
Chronicles of the Cinema