History of Film by a bunch of media students.

1. History of Film

2. 1890-1895
William Dickson and Thomas Edison invents
the first usable celluloid film.
Edison in 1893 unveiled the first practical
moving picture camera at the Chicago World
Fair.
Yound Griffo vs the Battling Charles Barnett
was the first film screened to a paying audience
in 1865

3. 1887
The first camera to use roll film was
developed in 1887. it was called a
Kinetograph and was produced by Thomas
Edison

4. 1902
In 1902 George Miles mad the movie A Trip to the
Moon, which was 13 minutes long and they used
Matte Paintings as the background.

5. 1902
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was the first horror
movie to be created in the film industry

6. 1903
The Great Train Robbery was a film that was
produced by Edwin S Porter using 12 long films for
14 shots. The last scene was special as it depicted
the sheriff shooting directly at the camera into the
audience.

7. 1914
The Perils of Pauline was the movie that first
introduced the ‘distressed damsel’ concept.

8. 1916
D.W.Griffith was known as the first real full
length narrative director. He was also
praised for his editing techniques with the
help of his camera man Billy Bitzer.

9. 1921
The Kid was Charlie Chaplin’s first movie
and was the picture that boosted his career
into being the original Movie Celebrity

10. 1922
The first Technicolor and 3D movie was
released in this year. It was called the Power
of Love in LA

11. 1922
This year also released the movie Nosferatu
that is widely praised for being quite scary
and innovative in creating the look of the
actual monster

12. 1940s
Citizen Kane was the
greatest film of all time
up until 1999.
Made heroic movies
because of the war that
was happening at the
time.

13. 1950s
Singing in the rain and Vertigo were two of
the top 4 films made in the 1950’s

14. 1960s
A space odyssey (1968) was the
first film to use the technique of
green screen ( blue screen at the
time). It was also classed as one of
the top 4 films of the 1960,s era.
As the use of green screen
technology was a new
advancement to the film industry, it
was popular amongst the public
and therefore gained a mass
audience

15. 1970s
Star Wars was the first time that the
credits of the actors were shown at
the beginning of the film. It was not
allowed at the time as it limited
George Lucas to having no established
actors/writers because this view was
not shared amongst the industry.
Therefore, the whole production was
shipped to the UK.
This was one of the only Science
Fiction movies in the 1970’s but was
not the only one competing to be the
best of all time. Because there was
little competition, this film also gained
a lot of support

16. 1980s
3 Men and a Baby
Directed by Leonard Nimoy, who is
better known for playing spock

17. 1990s
Beauty and the Beast
It is a Disney film and was one of the first
films to use computers.

18. 2000s
Due to lack of layers in films, no films from
the 2000s made it into the top 100. Since
1999 films have become simpler.