A history of Video Production (Wk 4)

That was the topic of this weeks lecture. It was a majorly shortened version of the entire history of film and screen, but managed to cover all of the key points. I’m not so sure how to summarize this so here goes.

· 1895 – The word cinema was coined from cinematographer

· 1897 – The first cinema was made for the sole purpose of showing films

· 1903 – The first narrative film ever, The Great Train Robbery

· 1906 – The first feature length film, The Story of the Kelly Gang, made in Australia

· 1909 – Movie palaces began opening throughout America housing from 1000-3000 people.

· 1913 – The studio system was born; pre-planning and budgeting were made to help with production.

· 1914 – The first movie star, Charlie Chaplin

· 1921 – Believed to be the first film with sound, D.W. Griffiths “Dream Street”

· 1923 – “The Ten Commandments” was the first film to feature parts in Technicolor.

· 1927 – The birth of Talkies (movies with sound), Warner Brothers “The Jazz Singer”

· 1929 – The first film to use both Technicolor and Sound was “On With The Show”, first shown in NYC on May 28, 1929

· 1933 – The first Drive-In theatre, actually called “The Automobile Movie Theatre”

· 1937 – Snow White, the first feature length animated colour film.

· 1939 – What a year, T.V. Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind and much more

· 1941 – Film Noir (noir is black in French) was a new style of film which focused on showing the darker side of life.

· 1952 – 3D was introduced to help bring audiences back to the cinema and to compete with the growing market of T.V.

· 1952 – The first video tape recorder was created.

· 1960 –Psycho, the best horror film ever was directed by the great Alfred Hitchcock

· 1963 – The first Multiplex cinema

· 1967 – Sony made the first consumer Black and White video camera

· 1978 – The video Laser Disk

· 1983 – Tron. The first film to heavily use 3D animation.

· 1986 – Pixar’s Luxo, Jr. was the first film to be fully computer generated.

· 1988 – Who Framed Roger Rabbit was a breakthrough in using animation and live-action film together.

· 1994 – Pulp Fiction used a whole range of techniques to deliver one of the best films ever.

· 1995 – Toy Story. The first fully computer gernerated feature length film ever which had a run time of 81 minutes

· 1997 – The first DVD’s (Digital Versatile Disks) began being sold in America

· 1998 – The first HDTV sets started being sold in America

· 2006 – YouTube has over 100 million videos being watched per day :O

So that’s it basically LOL.