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Silent Era
Until 1927, motion pictures for films were produced without sound. This era is referred to as the silent era of film. To enhance the viewers' experience, silent films were commonly accompanied by live musicians in an orchestra, a theatre organ, and sometimes sound effects and even commentary spoken by the showman or projectionist. -
First Movie
Edward Mybridge makes the first movie off of a $25,000 dollar bet.
Took pictures of a horse galloping on a track and, after winning the bet, realized that if you moved to the right and looked at the pictures, it looked like the horse was moving.
Sorry about the date, it doesnt say. -
First movie theatres
Date is unknown to me The first movie thatres were made, but were not called movie theatres. They were called kinetoscope parlors. You put your eye up to a peep hole, and got to see the moving images. Only for an audience of one. -
Thomas Jeffferson
Thomas Jefferson made the Peephole Kinetoscope.
He would line the people and pocket the money.
Thought hat if he charged people one at a time, he would make more money.
Had made the projector, but kept it to himself. -
Train Movie Incident
One of the movies was of a train heading straight for the crowd of people. The audience had never seen anything like that before, so they all tried to scrammble out of the way before the train "hit them".
The incident case broken bones and people being hurt -
"First" Projector
Lumiere brothers come out with the "first" projector in Europe.
Called it Cinematographe.
Movies were about 30 - 60 seconds long.
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Vaudeville
Movie theatres that would play a short little clip, and then have a skit, comedy routine, and song and dance numbers.
They would go on until they got booed offstage, and the theatre played the next clip.
Vaudeville eventually turned in to what is now known as, Nickleodean. -
A Trip to the Moon
One of the more well known movies of its time is "A Trip to the Moon".
It was about people who traveled to them moon!!! -
Italian Movies
In 1943, Ossessione was screened in Italy, marking the beginning of Italian neorealism. Major films of this type during the 1940s included Bicycle Thieves, Rome, Open City, and La Terra Trema. -
Post War Conflicts with movies
During the immediate post-war years the cinematic industry was also threatened by television, and the increasing popularity of the medium meant that some film theatres would bankrupt and close. The demise of the "studio system" spurred the self-commentary of films like Sunset Boulevard (1950) and The Bad and the Beautiful (1952). -
Making of New Types of Movies
The New Hollywood was the period following the decline of the studio system during the 1950s and 1960s and the end of the production code, (which was replaced in 1968 by the MPAA film rating system). During the 1970s, filmmakers increasingly depicted explicit sexual content and showed gunfight and battle scenes that included graphic images of bloody deaths -
Unsuccessful ban on VCR tapes
During the 1980s, audiences began increasingly watching films on their home VCRs. In the early part of that decade, the film studios tried legal action to ban home ownership of VCRs as a violation of copyright, which proved unsuccessful.
