Beginnings of the Cinema

The Beginnings of CinemaHistory of photographic recording of still and moving imagesIntroductionCinema is totally dependent upon technology and science. Substantial achievements in the following fields were required: chemistry, optics, high-precision mechanics.Basicssilver salts photosensitive material (changes its structure when exposed to light), The chemical base for the black and white photography. Developments of PhotographyCamera ObscuraLeonardo daVincipinhole camera

The Beginning of photographyJoseph Nicphore Nipce French inventor.Made first permanent photograph with a modified camera obscura around 1826.First photograph 1829 - balcony.

Louis Daguerre 11839 Louis Daguerre first practical development in photography (daguerreotype).He invents the first commercially viable process for still photographs.

Daguerre 3

TalbotWilliam Henry Fox Talbot developed a system of negative recording (from a negative you can produce an infinite number of prints).

Eastman: celluloid film1889 George Eastman patented flexible photographic film developed for the role camera. Eastman: celluloid base coated with a photosensitive emulsion.

What famous company did Eastman fund?

Moving images

28th December 1895 Grand Caf in Paris August Lumire and Louis LumireInvented the Cinematographe

First film screeningThe first official screening of a film. Formal birth of the cinema. The showing was organized by Lumire brothers. They recorded and screened films using the machine of their own production called cinmatographe.

Cinematographe

Famous Lumiere FilmsLa sortie des usines Lumire, 1895Arrive d'un train en gare la Ciotat, 1895Barque sortant du port, 1895Repas de bb, 1895L'arrosseur arros, 1895Demolition dun mur, 1896

Lumiere films

Cinetoscope1889 Edisons Cinetoscope (you had to look inside the box to see a short film) nickelodeon.

Georges Mlis1899French magician Georges Melies becomes the first artist to tell a story with film. (first fiction films) He introduces trick cinema, special effects. He discovers the possibility to represent the reality that does not exist (science-fiction, horror etc.)

Georges Mlis - Un homme de ttes (early film, 1898)

A Trip to the Moon1902Melies releases short film titled A Trip to the Moon: the first science fiction-film.

Edwin S. PorterStarted as a projectionistWent to work for Edison as a camera operator 1903Edwin S. Porter releases The Great Train Robbery, the first movie to use modern production techniques, such as filming out of sequence.Strong narrative12 different scenes in different locations introduction of editing, filming from different distances.

David Wark GriffithOne of the greatest innovators of the early American cinema. Birth of the Nation (1915), Intolerance (1916)simultaneous editing (crosscutting)longer filmscamera movement

Intolerance (1916)

Birth of the Nation

Jazz Singer1927 first widely distributed sound movie.