Week 6 - Response to Content

The theme of this weeks lecture was the History of cinema.
The word cinema was first created on December 25th, 1895 in Paris, France. The word is derived from Cinematograph which is the art of making motion pictures.
Seven years later in 1903, the first ever Narrative film was created. The shots mainly consisted of basic daily activities such as sneezing and cleaning.

In 1906 the first ever full length feature film was made in Australia. As a result of the popularity of the concept of moving pictures, studios then began creating cereals in 1912. Each one was a shorter film released in episodic installments.

1913 saw the birth of the studio system with Thomas Harper creating the first. Up until this date, all films were independent and made by wealthy people with an expendable income. This was the birth of Hollywood. Another massive leap in the film industry was in 1927 when film makers had the technology to record dialogue and then sync the film to it. The Jazz singer was the first ever widely screened film featuring sound. Then after this development, 1929 saw the first ever natural colour film. It was a musical called 'On With the Show'. In the same year, the first ever Oscars were held in Hollywood.

In 1933, producers began experimenting with the ways in which viewers could watch their films. This was the birth of the first ever drive in movie theater. Then in 1937, the industry saw one of the most profound leaps in the cinematic world. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was the first ever full length animated feature. It was made on a budget of $1.5m and made $8m which was an astounding profit in it's time.

In 1939, television was formally introduced at New Yorks world fair in Queens. This was a major rival of studio companies, as there was a large decline in viewers visiting movie theaters when they could watch movies and news from the comfort of their home. Years later in 1952, movie studios introduced 3D films as an attempts to counteract television and get viewers back into their cinemas. It wasn't until years later that studio companies had the realization that they could team with the television companies and sell their movies to them to make profit that way.

These were the major developments that sculpted the way we can view movies and television today. Since the year 1952, there have been no major developments in the industry, but film quality has slowly progressed into the films that we can view today.