12 historical facts that changed film making

By MarwanSaed

  • The first film projector

    The first film projector
    The Lumière brothers invented the first successful movie projector. their first film being Sortie de l'usine Lumière de Lyon. This greatly changed the way people view films.

  • The first female director

    The first female director
    Alice Guy-Blaché was the first female director. Working for the Gaumont Film Company in France at the time that the cinema was being invented. she created La Fée aux Choux, this is very significant especially back on that time.

  • The first cartoon film ever made

    The first cartoon film ever made
    Fantasmagorie is a french animated film by Émile Cohl. it is a hand drawn animation and considered by film historians to be the first animated cartoon. that introduced drawings as films

  • the first colored film

    the first colored film
    Cupid Angling is the first ever colored film to be released! This changed the game and allowed us to see in color and no longer deal with the black and white. Making colored films however were really costly.

  • First film with audio or should I say first talkie

    First film with audio or should I say first talkie
    The first feature film as a talkie was The Jazz Singer. It introduced audio to films. As talkies grew in fame the silent films started to die down thank goodness.

  • The first film to use a sound track (plus sound effects and music)

    The first film to use a sound track (plus sound effects and music)
    Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans it won the very first Academy Award for Best Picture. it was the first film to use a soundtrack that included sound effects and music. Now in current day every movie has a soundtrack.

  • First disney film ever made

    First disney film ever made
    the first Disney film ever was Snow White and the seven dwarfs. this jump started the diner company. Disney is now one of the most famous film companies.

  • The first super hero in a movie

    The first super hero in a movie
    the first movie based on a comic book superhero is Superman and the Mole Men starring George Reeves as Superman. it was 58 minutes long and it was independently produced.

  • first ever CGI used (2D)

    first ever CGI used (2D)
    2D CGI was first used in the movie Westworld. it was used in order to remove a characters face. this jumpstarted the step in making movie look very realistic.

  • fist CGI to be used (3D)

    fist CGI to be used (3D)
    first use of 3D CGI was in the sequel of westward. Futureworld which made a hand and face created by a University. Opening the doors to cgi and allowing people to make movies they couldn't have done without.

  • The first film made by Pixar

    The first film made by Pixar
    pixars first and extremely loved movie was toystory. This movie has grown so much and has influenced film making to promote animated films. aswell as jump starting pixar allowing it to rival disney in todays world.

  • The first movie to make over 1 billion gross dollars

    The first movie to make over 1 billion gross dollars
    Titanic was the first film to reach over a billion dollars in gross.Alll of this happened within 74 days of being released. Showing a more documentry side to film making and setting the limit to what a movie could achieve to be good.