Flim history

 

Flim history

       Evolution and Film History

Cinema was not created by one individual. However, the Edison Company successfully unveiled a Kinetoscope prototype in 1891, allowing one person to watch moving images at once. In the beginning, movies were frequently only a few minutes or less long. They were shown in music halls, fairgrounds, and other locations where a screen could be set up and a room could be made dark. Local sceneries and activities, views of other countries, quick comedies, and noteworthy events were among the topics covered. There were lectures, music, and lots of audience interaction to go along with the movies. They were not "silent," as is commonly said, despite not having synchronised dialogue.

FILM INDUSTRY'S GROWTH

Several national film industries had been established by 1914. The industries at this time were dominated by Europe, Russia, and Scandinavia; America was far less significant. As movies grew longer, storytelling, or narrative, took centre stage. As more people paid to see movies, the business that developed around them was willing to invest more money in their creation, distribution, and exhibition, leading to the establishment of major studios and the construction of specialised theatres. The film business in Europe was significantly impacted by the First World War, while the American sector gained in relative importance.

The development and stabilisation of an industrial base, the establishment of the narrative form, and the advancement of technology were all hallmarks of the first 30 years of cinema.

Color was first added to black-and-white movies through hand coloring, tinting, toning and stenciling. By 1906, the principles of color separation were used to produce so-called ‘natural color’ moving images with the British Kinemacolor process, first presented to the public in 1909.

The  first attempts to add synchronized sound to projected pictures used phonographic cylinders or discs. This system proved unreliable and was soon replaced by an optical, variable density soundtrack recorded photographically along the edge of the film, developed originally for newsreels such as Movie