The short history in film making.

1. Extra Credit Project
Kevin Silverman
THE HISTORY OF FILM

2. ORIGINS
• First Precursors of film:
• Kinematoscope(1861)
• Muybridge’s zoopraxiscope(1879)
• Louis Le Prince patents successive production of objects in
motion by means of a projector".(1886)
• The Arrival of a Train premiered on a large screen December 28,1895 at
the Grand Cafe in Paris, France. In the US, Woodville Latham combined a
Kinetoscope with a projecting device. People able to watch short motion
pictures. on Broadway in New York City.
• Click to Watch The Arrival of a Train

3. THE SILENT ERA(1895-1929)
• By 1906, film plays a major role in the entertainment business.
• No sound in this movies– this was replaced with live music and performers, called
vaudeville
• Nitrate Film mostly used-EXTREMELY FLAMMABLE(lost movies)
• Big movies of the Era:
• Le voyage dans le Lune(1902)
• The Birth of a Nation(1915)
• The Hunchback on Notre Dame(1923)
• Rise of contemporary and symbolic
Movies occur in mid 1910s.
Nitrate Photograph

4. THE SOUND ERA- “TALKIES”(1927-1945)
• Started with The Jazz Singer (1927), the first feature-length talkies.
• Talkies helped make Hollywood the world’s premiere movie city
•First to use talkies on a large scale.
Also Changed the implications of movies because it made people
more keen on lstening rather than being able to talk during the movie.
Robert Sklar said in his book Movie Made America, "talking audiences
for silent pictures became a silent audience for talking pictures" (53).
Big fils of era:
-The Jazz Singer(1927)
-Don Juan(1926)
-Wizard of Oz(1939)
-Casa Blanca(1942)
-Citizen Kane(1941)

6. 1945-1960: POST-WAR PERIOD
• Political and racial tensions influenced this time period.
• Rise of Animated films
• Disney produced various, including Cinderella (1950), Peter Pan (1953), Lady and the
Tramp (1955), and Sleeping Beauty (1959).
• Short rise of 3-D films
• House of Wax and Creature of the Black Lagoon
• Top films of the Era
• It’s a Wonderful Life(1946)
• Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
• On the Water Front (1954)
• Also produced rise of Asian Cinema
• Rise of colored films

7. 1960S
• Decline of Hollywood’s studios
• Rise in prominence of other countries’ motion pictures.
• La Dolce Vita(196)
• Rise of French Influence
• Les Quatres Cents Coupes(1960) François Truffaut.
• Breathless
• Growing importance of The Cold War
• Dr. Strangelove(1964)
• Other Notable Films:
• 2001: A Space Odyssey(1968)
• The Sound of Music (1965)
• Mary Poppins (1964)

8. 1970S: POST CLASSICAL CINEMA
• Called the “New Hollywood”
• Showed more Gore and more sexual content.
• A Clockwork Orange (1971)
• Lead a Larger Era
• Jaws(1975)
• Star Wars (1977)
• Dirty Harry (1971)
• The Godfather (1972)
• Decline of Musical Films/Rise of Action Films
• Term “Bollywood” created
• Biggest Cultural Icon: Bruce Lee
• Enter The Dragon (1973)

9. 1980S: SEQUELS AND BLOCKBUSTERS
• Creation of VCRs lead to people watching movies at home
• Sequels Made to Star Wars and Jaws
• Lucas and Speilburg also made Indiana Jones(1981) together
• Use of Computer Graphics
• E.T.(1982)
• Tron (1982)
• Big effect on Modern Day Pop Culture
• Terminator(1984)
• Continuation of importance of Crime Dramas
• Scarface (1983)

10. 1990S: RISE OF SPECIAL EFFECTS
• Creation and rise of the DVD
• Growth of Disney and PIXAR
• Toy Story (1995)
• The Lion King (1994)
• Cultural icon: Quentin Tarantino and Tom Hanks
• Forrest Gump (1994)
• Pulp Fiction (1994)
• Reservior Dogs (1992)
• Increase in Special Effect movies
• Titanic (1997)
• Jurassic Park (1993)

11. 2000S
• Rise of the Documentary
• Fahrenheit 911(2004)
• March of the Penguins(2005)
• Growth of IMAX
• Matrix(1999)
• The Dark Knight(2008)
• Revival of 3D
• Avatar(2009)
• Toy Story 3(2010)
• Revival of Epic Cinema
• Gladiator(2000)
• Lord of the Rings
• Harry Potter

12. BIBLIOGRAPHY
• http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ug00/3on1/movies/talkies.html
• http://www.filmsite.org/
• http://www.filmsite.org/milestones1900s.html
• http://www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory/