During the mid to late years of the 19th century, a new form of entertainment emerged. Film entered the stage of innovation. New marketing and technological innovations developed for film to become the art it is today. In the 1830s, Joseph Plateau designed the Phenakistoscope. This device had a picture in the middle of a wheel made with mirrors and small openings. When spun, the Phenakistoscope made the picture appear to move. The name changed to Zoetrope in the 1860s and producers advertised the product as an accessory every home needed (Dixon & Foster, 2008). Later inventions that preceded the first motion picture camera include: Henry Du Mont’s Omiscope, Henry R. Heyl’s Phasmatrope, Eadweard Muybridge’s Zoöpraxiscope, Etienne-Jules Marey’s fusil photographique and Eastman Kodak’s chronophotographs (Parkinson, 1997). With a design by Thomas Edison, William Kennedy Laurie Dickson built the first modern movie camera, the Kinetograph, in 1890 (Dixon & Foster, 2008). In 1895, Auguste and Louis Lumiére patented the Cinématographe, a machine that combined the engineering of a camera and a projector (Bergan, 2006). Businessmen capitalized on the growing need for a place to witness these brand new films, thus they charged people to see them in their living rooms (Potter, 2014). These creations made movie-making a reality. Directors during film’s innovation period The art of film made it’s way into the penetration stage around the turn of the century and remained there until
As times are changing, knowledge and information are also changing. With that, the development of motion picture complexity has changed the film industry by a continuing technological evolution. It is evident that films have changed significantly over the last 100 years. The intricacy of filmmaking technology has rapidly progressed, allowing creative potential for filmmakers. Films are often due to technological advances, or even to reintroduce a classic story. Some examples of films that have been remade include Scarface (1932), remade in 1983, and The Magnificent Seven (1960), remade in 1998. King Kong (1933) is another example of a film that has been remade. The remake, King Kong (2005), directed by Peter Jackson, shows technological
Movies have been around for over one hundred years, and they have changed quite a lot from the beginning to now.
Throughout the beginning of time people have used art to express themselves. With each major, and minor, there is an artist that captures the world as it is around him. There are also artists that create fiction to give the world and escape from reality. The medium of art that will be discussed in this essay will be film. Since the invention of Thomas Jefferson kinecto graph and the Lumiere brothers cinemtograph, films have continued to be the most popular entertainment methods in France and America. Since historical events have somewhat of an impact on the content in film, this essay will take a look at the effects of films years before and after World II. World War II was one of the major historical events to have
The 1920s were period of vast technological advances; films too, experienced major technological advance. The first motion picture
Japanese film went through a huge expansion prior and during WWII, but remained isolated within the countries film industry until after the war. With the help of the Edison Kinetograph, the first viable motion-picture camera, Japanese film went through a more violent and sexualized period. This “primitive” movement, powered by Kabuki Theater, occurred because of the popularity and influence of the older, more revered style (Cook 565). Kabuki plays were “highly stylized and somewhat [had an] overwrought dramatic form,” (Cook 565). This lead to Kabuki styled-films to enter into mainstream cinema, providing stories that went from stage to screen and encouraged the growth of the Japanese film industry.
The invention of television greatly affected filmmaking in America. Although attendance dropped greatly in movie theatres for a significant time certain elements were employed by the film industry to bring the audience back. Additionally, the Production Code changed during this time as well as the reflection of American culture and social tensions in films.
The concept of Auteur was first introduced by Andre Bazin in an essay featured in a 1954 edition of Cahier du Cinema, often referred to as ‘camera stylo’ or ‘signature style’ as a way of critiquing French new wave cinema. This theory allowed film to be criticised and analysed in the same way as other creative platforms such as art and literature. By identifying the director as auteur as opposed to just ‘Metteur-en-Scène’ it transformed them into an artisté, by assuming creative control they in turn gave a film a certain style. The auteur was a director “consistently expressing his own unique obsessions, the other was a competent, even highly competent, filmmaker, but lacking the consistency which betrayed the profound involvement of a personality”
According to Film History: An Introduction, the Victorian era (1890's or at the turn of the 20th century) ushered in the era of early
There were many early developments for films during the 1800’s through the 1900’s, which took the world by storm. They became more popular as time went by, and over the decades they became internationally popular. Directors who created films had more difficulties than it seemed to grab the attention of the audience when a film was released for their entertainment. Various films during that Era had many similarities and differences on how films were produced. Throughout the essay, it will contain similarities of two films on how they shaped the film industry of today.
Finally by eighteen ninety four the European Lumiere brothers, Louis and Auguste, manufactured a camera that served as both a recording device and projecting device. They then were able to name it the Cinematographer to make films cheaper than those Thomas sold. Later on in eighteen ninety five the very first movie produced with the Cinematographer was workers leaving the Lumiere factory at Lyon. All of these fantastic inventors have given people all around the world a chance to step into a new reality and take a break from the real world. With such a rich and beautiful history movies have come a long way over time and developed many different genres, and three out of many that people have access to are comedy, action, and
A common luxury in America today is television and movies, but have you ever wondered how visual entertainment on screen began? Since the late 1800’s the way we view things in cinema has changed profoundly. Living in the 21st Century, in which is the digital revolution, we no longer have to leave our homes to see a movie or event. How did it all start? Who came up with the idea? Who built the first camera? How did it have an impact on cinema today? Credit must be given to an early motion picture device called the Kinetoscope, which set the standard for all cinematic projections that we have today.
The film industry has continuously changed since its inception due to rapid technology advancements. Camera technology has been a key factor that has influenced the growth of filmmaking. The first motion picture in the world was produced in the early 1880s, and the first public screening occurred ten years later. It didn’t take long for the quality of films to improve as new filmmaking equipment emerged. Ever since the first movie was produced, the film industry has been continuously changing in response to emerging filmmaking technology. Introduction of digital photography and digital data storage along with the development of internet significantly influenced the film industry (Barsam, 2015). These technologies contributed
Film style refers to the technical practices employed within filmmaking, this includes the use of cinematography, mise-en-scene, dialogue, editing and narrative. Understanding changes in film style is crucial to examining film in a historical, political and cultural context. All of which as these external elements directly affected the production of film and altered the style of filmmaking. In this essay I will be exploring how the coming of sound homogenised filmmaking and aided the creation of a widespread distinct film style, ‘Classical Hollywood’ cinema.
The beginning of the cinema is dated on 28 December 1895. This day, Lumiere brothers arranged the first open display of motion pictures. Although it was not the initial presentation of their invention, the cinematograph, it was the first one for which they were selling tickets, for the symbolic 1 CHF . Later on, the process of film development has gone fairly quickly. Hollywood’s Golden Age, which fell between 1927 and 1960, was the most essential
Most people think of movies as art. Art forms like dance, music, and literature go back thousands of years. But because the movie camera was invented roughly 100 years ago the motion picture is in fact a recent art form. The movies we know and love today would not be possible without significant advancements in technology.