History of Malayalam Cinema

Film is a form of art that is formally used as a means of entertainment. Yet, through time making films are now a part of a massive industry. This paper will explore the importance of entertainment, specifically films that are made in India. The focus of this paper will be to introduce the arrival of film in India through different time periods and how several historical events have impacted the Bollywood industry. Moreover, once a general idea of how Bollywood development through time is explained, we will then establish why the Bollywood industry is unique and different from any other film industry in the world. This will also include the different factors which have influenced the Bollywood industry. Lastly, this paper will

The story of the Kelly gang was the first feature film. It was made in 1906, it is an Australian film that uses no word or music. This movie was shot around the city of Melbourne the film ran for more than an hour with a reel length of 1,200 metres! It was the longest narrative film in the world! It was first presented in the Melbourne'a athenaeum hall on 26 December 1906.

India’s independence movement culminated in the release of India from British rule in 1947. The movement technically started over a hundred years before they would be free, but the nail in the

The story is about four different versions of events for one account that is told through flashbacks. Some consistent things in all four stories is that a man was walking in the forest with his wife on a horse. A bandit by the name Tajomaur ties up the husband and attacks the wife. The husband ends up died, and what weapon was used is questioned. At least one story says a danger was used while two others say a sword was used.

Shortly after, the brothers Auguste and Louis Lumiere created a hand-cranked machine called the cinematographe, which could both capture pictures and project still frames in quick succession. The first motion picture studio, Nestor Motion Picture Company, was built, then one year later merged with Universal Film Company. By 1912, at least 15 independent studios located around the town were ready to shoot.The first color movie is housed at the Electric Theatre in 1912. In 1915, Hollywood began taking it’s famous shape: glamour, fame, and stardom, and thus the American dream is born! In 1915, a film that was supposedly the most important film of all time, D. W. Griffith's “The Birth of a Nation” uses brand new techniques such as story flashbacks, dramatic close ups, and cross cutting. Along with the start of Warner Brother Studios by four brothers (not Grauman) Film Director William Desmond Taylor is murdered at his home a few blocks away from his studio office in 1922. The crime is never solved. In 1922, Rin Tin Tin, the famous trained German Shepherd makes his first appearance (appears in

Moreover, although the screenplay had been devalued since its legitimate arrival in the early 1900s, it is clear that its craft and continued development proved to be a crucial part of the formation of film’s eventual perception as an artful and classical

The costs, methods of distribution, and themes of Hollywood and Nollywood films reflect strongly their target audiences; how the target audience affects the production of a film and how the production of a movie is designed to capture a specific

Throughout history, the movie industry has constantly developed and changed over time. However, one thing that has always stayed the same is the influence in which the audience has had on the development of genres, films, producers, and actors which altered Hollywood cinema. By examining what the audience has continually desired from the actors, and how their requests have influenced the design, production and financial success of films, it will become obvious that the creation of “Stardom” was influenced by the audience and the pressure in which they enacted upon the studio based on historical context play a role in the success of early Holcinema. As time progressed through history, the wants of the audience started to increase.

Over the years, Cinema has become a powerful tool for education, leisure, culture, propaganda. In 2013, the world hit a record high of 7,610 films, with India accounting for more than one-fifth of the total production. (uis.nesco.org, 2018) The first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, once stated,”..the influence in India of films is greater than newspapers and books combined,”

The History of film has been influenced by the discovery and testing of paradoxes intrinsic in the medium itself. machines are used record images of anything; it combines still photographs to give the appearance of continuous motion; it seems to present life itself, but it also offers unthinkable unrealities approached only in dreams.

Hindi Cinema, famously known as Bollywood across the world, is one of the largest film industries in the world. The Era started with Raja Harishchandra by Dadasaheb Phalke, the father of Indian Cinema and Bollywood, who made the first film of Indian Cinema and Hindi Cinema. The first sound and colour films were made by Ardeshir Irani, called Alam Ara (1913) and Kisan Kanya (1937) respectively. The period between 1940’s to 1960’s was considered the “Golden Age” of Bollywood as successful hits like Pyaasa (1957) and Kaagaz Ke Phool (1959) by Guru Dutt, Awaara (1951) and Shree 420 (1955) by Raj Kapoor and Aan (1952) by Dilip Kumar.

The release of Gordon Hollingshead and Alan Crosland’s The Jazz Singer in 1927 marked the new age of synchronised sound in cinema. The feature film was a huge success at the box office and it ushered in the era David Bordwell describes as ‘Classical Hollywood Cinema’; Bordwell and two other film theorists (Janet Staiger and Kristin Thompson) conducted a formalist analysis of 100 randomly selected Hollywood films from the years 1917 to 1960 in order to fully define this movement. Their results yielded that most Hollywood made films during that era were centred on, or followed, specific blueprints that formed the finished product. Through this analysis of Hollywood films the theorists were able to establish stylised conventions and modes of

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.

This essay will look into the history of film and its development of storytelling on the cinema screen. Including how a script is important towards the final outcome of the film and the many technical practises that make film narratives ever growing.

One had such exceptional star actors as Uttam Kumar and Suchitra Sen, arguably the greatest Bengali stars ever, and Soumitra Chatterjee and Supriya Devi, who had the charisma to lift even mediocre material to a certain artistic height. There was a crop of brilliant character actors like Chhabi Biswas, Utpal Dutt, Robi Ghosh, Tulsi Chakrabarty, Dhritiman Chattrejee and Anil Chatterjee, among others, who could be counted upon to consistently deliver the goods. And commercial Bengali cinema of the era had film makers of the stature of Tapan Sinha, Ajay Kar, Agragami, Asit Sen, Tarun Majumdar, Rajen Tarafdar, who working within the conventional boundaries of mainstream cinema managed to create enduring works of art. In between these actors and film makers Bengali cinema witnessed its most successful phase at the box