2. Films
started to be produced around the
1880s.
In
the beginning all films were short.
The
earliest cinema audiences may not have
been aware of this as they marvelled at
seconds long scenes that were produced.
Films
began to get longer when the 20th
century was dawning.
3.
The very first films were presented to the public in 1894
through Thomas Edison’s Kinetoscope.
The films were usually from day to day life.
The best-known film from this time is perhaps the Lumière
brothers’ Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (1895).
Bryony Dixon, the BFI national archive’s silent film curator
and director of the British Silent Film Festival said that:
“The major outlets for entertainment at that time were
music halls and fairgrounds, where programmes were
made up of a variety of different acts lasting up to
about 20 minutes. Most early films imitated other
entertainment media already in existence: magic
lantern shows, illustrations, variety acts, tableaux
presentations. So short was the norm.”
4. As
the demand for films became stronger the
use of equipment for recording and editing
improved drastically so by the 1900’s filmmakers are able to produce longer, multi-shot
films.
However
silent.
The
most films before the 1930’s were
movie theatre became a simpler, easy
way for the audiences entertainment.
