Today during the lecture we discussed a time line of the big screen to the small screen scaling from 1895 to present day, however we only got up to 2002.
1895 - Birth of cinema (moving images of everyday things e.g sneezing, walking etc.)
1906 – First feature length narrative film (Australia was the first to do this, film was about Ned Kelly)
1927 – “Talkies” – First film with talking and sound. Live music was played previously in silent film. “The Jazz singer” was the first film with sound.
1929 – First all colour film
1933 – First drive-in Cinema/Theatre – was in New Jersey and only cost 29 cents!
1937 – First all colour, all singing animated film “Snow White”
1939 – First TV
1952 – Birth of 3D (Hollywood turned out most movies in the 40’s and 50’s)
1955 – Hollywood sells their movies to TV stations so as viewers at home can watch them.
1956 – First VCR/VTR
1959 – Percepto vision – Mild electric shocks given to audiences in horror movies. Smello vision – incorporating smells into the cinema experience
1963 – Birth of multiplex theatre – Allowed films to be played on more than one screen at the same time
1967-69 – Portapax – Portable VCR player and camera (Sony)
1970 – IMAX
1972 – Pay TV
1985 – First blockbuster video store opened
1986 – First CGI animated short film mad. Luxo Jr. (Pixar)
1995 – Toy Story (Pixar)
1997 – DVD video and laser disk. “Troops”
(Hollywood not yet grasped concept of watching films through the internet)
2002 – BMW – “The Driver” (8 short films approx. 10mins each). A lot of money invested into short films.
We finished off by watching two very funny clips. The first one was from a series entitled “Troops”, where star wars storm troopers are blended with reality cops to give an extremely amusing outcome. The second clip we watched was a short film, directed by Guy Ritchie featuring Clive Owen and Madonna. I thought this was a fantastic short film and have been watching a few others on you tube. They are very entertaining indeed. I hope more time, money and effort will be continually invested into short films so we can all bear witness to more of this particular genius in the future.
BMW Short Film (S1E4) - Star
1895 - Birth of cinema (moving images of everyday things e.g sneezing, walking etc.)
1906 – First feature length narrative film (Australia was the first to do this, film was about Ned Kelly)
1927 – “Talkies” – First film with talking and sound. Live music was played previously in silent film. “The Jazz singer” was the first film with sound.
1929 – First all colour film
1933 – First drive-in Cinema/Theatre – was in New Jersey and only cost 29 cents!
1937 – First all colour, all singing animated film “Snow White”
1939 – First TV
1952 – Birth of 3D (Hollywood turned out most movies in the 40’s and 50’s)
1955 – Hollywood sells their movies to TV stations so as viewers at home can watch them.
1956 – First VCR/VTR
1959 – Percepto vision – Mild electric shocks given to audiences in horror movies. Smello vision – incorporating smells into the cinema experience
1963 – Birth of multiplex theatre – Allowed films to be played on more than one screen at the same time
1967-69 – Portapax – Portable VCR player and camera (Sony)
1970 – IMAX
1972 – Pay TV
1985 – First blockbuster video store opened
1986 – First CGI animated short film mad. Luxo Jr. (Pixar)
1995 – Toy Story (Pixar)
1997 – DVD video and laser disk. “Troops”
(Hollywood not yet grasped concept of watching films through the internet)
2002 – BMW – “The Driver” (8 short films approx. 10mins each). A lot of money invested into short films.
We finished off by watching two very funny clips. The first one was from a series entitled “Troops”, where star wars storm troopers are blended with reality cops to give an extremely amusing outcome. The second clip we watched was a short film, directed by Guy Ritchie featuring Clive Owen and Madonna. I thought this was a fantastic short film and have been watching a few others on you tube. They are very entertaining indeed. I hope more time, money and effort will be continually invested into short films so we can all bear witness to more of this particular genius in the future.
BMW Short Film (S1E4) - Star
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