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  1. History of film

    The history of film chronicles the development of a visual art form created using film technologies that began in the late 19th century.. The advent of film as an artistic medium is not clearly defined. There were earlier cinematographic screenings by others, however, the commercial, public screening of ten Lumière brothers' short films in Paris on 28 December 1895, can be regarded as the ...

  2. First Movie Ever Made: The Early History of Film

    The First Movie Ever Made and Its Release Date. The first movie ever made was an 11-frame clip shot on June 19th, 1878, using twelve separate cameras (frame 12 was not used) to film a man riding a horse on Leland Stanford's (the founder of Stanford University) Palo Alto Stock Farm (the eventual site of Stanford University).. Not exactly the high-action, special effects-driven, Braveheart ...

  3. The Lumière Brothers, Pioneers of Cinema

    In 1881, 17-year-old Louis invented a new "dry plate" process of developing film, which boosted his father's business enough to fuel the opening of a new factory in the Lyon suburbs. By 1894 ...

  4. History of film

    history of film, history of cinema, a popular form of mass media, from the 19th century to the present. (Read Martin Scorsese's Britannica essay on film preservation.) Early years, 1830-1910 Origins. The illusion of films is based on the optical phenomena known as persistence of vision and the phi phenomenon.The first of these causes the brain to retain images cast upon the retina of the ...

  5. First Movie Ever Made: The Story Of History's Oldest Film

    Updated February 22, 2024. Although some historians credit The Horse in Motion or Arrival of a Train as the first movie ever made, Louis Le Prince's 1888 film Roundhay Garden Scene is widely considered to be history's oldest motion picture. Public Domain A still from Roundhay Garden Scene. Motion pictures have been one of the world's favorite ...

  6. What Was the First Movie Ever Made

    Over time, the truth is often muddled. But now you know, the first movie ever made was Eadweard Muybridge's The Horse in Motion. The works of Louis Le Prince, Thomas Edison, the Lumiere Brothers, and Georges Méliès were all important - but they weren't the first.

  7. List of cinematic firsts

    The Broadway Melody, first ever musical film. Also the first sound film and first musical to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. Happy Days is the first feature film to be shown entirely in widescreen anywhere in the world. It was filmed using the Fox Grandeur 70 mm process. Glorifying the American Girl, the first film with sound to swear.

  8. The biographical film

    cinema's first international success; Charles Laughton (1899-1962) won a Best Actor Oscar ® for his portrayal of the monarch. The French film Napoléon (Abel Gance, 1927) brought a similar sense of national pride to a country whose film industry had been devastated by World War I. Still regarded as one of the most outstanding achievements in the history of the cinema, Napoléon was seen as ...

  9. Auguste and Louis Lumière

    They went on to develop the first practical photographic colour process, the Lumière Autochrome. Louis died on 6 June 1948 and Auguste on 10 April 1954. They are buried in a family tomb in the New Guillotière Cemetery in Lyon. First film screenings Poster for the first ever public screening of a film, by Henri Brispot, 1896

  10. Lumiere brothers

    October 19, 1862, Besançon, France—d. April 10, 1954, Lyon) and his brother Louis Lumière (b. October 5, 1864, Besançon—d. June 6, 1948, Bandol) created the film La Sortie des ouvriers de l'usine Lumière (1895; "Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory"), which is considered the first motion picture. Sons of a painter turned ...

  11. The Early History of Motion Pictures

    In 1890 Dickson unveiled the Kinetograph, a primitive motion picture camera. In 1892 he announced the invention of the Kinestoscope, a machine that could project the moving images onto a screen ...

  12. The 50 Best Biography Movies of All Time

    My 50 personal favorite biography movies of all time. Honourable Mentions: Elvis (2022) Mank (2020) Dolemite Is My Name (2019) First Man (2018) The Disaster Artist (2017) The Danish Girl (2015) Trumbo (2015) 127 Hours (2010) Hachi (2009) Hunger (2008) The Diving Bell & The Butterfly (2007) The Basketball Diaries (1995) Quiz Show (1994) Glory (1989) My Left Foot (1989) Escape From Alcatraz ...

  13. A very short history of cinema

    The first to present projected moving pictures to a paying audience were the Lumière brothers in December 1895 in Paris, France. They used a device of their own making, the Cinématographe, which was a camera, a projector and a film printer all in one. Detail of Kinetoscope, made by Thomas Edison in 1894.

  14. Steven Spielberg

    Steven Spielberg (born December 18, 1946, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.) is an American motion-picture director and producer whose diverse films—which ranged from science-fiction fare, including such classics as Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) and E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982), to historical dramas, notably Schindler's List (1993) and Saving Private Ryan (1998)—enjoyed both ...

  15. 10 Best Biographical Movies of All Time, According to IMDb

    The 1995 biographical film, Braveheart, is based on the history behind the late 13th-century Scottish warrior Sir William Wallace (Mel Gibson), who led his fellow Scots in the First War of ...

  16. List of biographical films

    Edvard Munch. Alfred Ekker Strande (young), Mattis Herman Nyquist (adult) Ola G. Furuseth (older), Anne Krigsvoll (elder) Stolen Baby: The Murder of Heidi Broussard. Magen Fieramusca. Emily Osment. Heidi Broussard. Anna Hopkins. Love & Death. Candy Montgomery.

  17. A Brief History of Time Travel (in Movies)

    It took a long time for the time-travel film to escape Wells and Twain's sci-fi shadows. The first three notable entries in the genre were adaptations of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's ...

  18. Photography History: The Film Era

    George Eastman and Kodak. At age twenty-three George Eastman abandoned his career as a bank clerk and started working in a photographic lab. It was then that George imagined a new type of photographic plate which would be lighter and more portable. This would become what Eastman called the "dry plate" and what we call "film.".

  19. The Kiss (1896 film)

    Full film. The Kiss (also known as The May Irwin Kiss, The Rice-Irwin Kiss and The Widow Jones) is an 1896 film, and was one of the first films ever shown commercially to the public.Around 18 seconds long, it depicts a re-enactment of the kiss between May Irwin and John Rice from the final scene of the stage musical The Widow Jones. The film was directed by William Heise for Thomas Edison.

  20. We Still Can't Believe That 'The Witch' Was Anya Taylor-Joy's First

    Horror. Mystery. A family in 1630s New England is torn apart by the forces of witchcraft, black magic and possession. Release Date. January 27, 2015. Director. Robert Eggers. Cast. Anya Taylor-Joy ...

  21. Apple TV+ announces the date for "Time Bandits" starring Lisa Kudrow

    Press Release May 20, 2024. Today, Apple TV+ announced the premiere date for the all-new comedic adventure series, "Time Bandits," the first-ever television adaptation of the beloved cult classic movie, to launch globally on Wednesday, July 24. Created for television by Jemaine Clement ("Flight of the Conchords"), Iain Morris ("The ...

  22. Biography

    A biography, or simply bio, is a detailed description of a person's life. It involves more than just basic facts like education, work, relationships, and death; it portrays a person's experience of these life events. Unlike a profile or curriculum vitae ( résumé ), a biography presents a subject's life story, highlighting various aspects of ...

  23. Stanley Kubrick filmography

    Stanley Kubrick filmography. Kubrick filming Barry Lyndon in 1975. Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) [1] directed thirteen feature films and three short documentaries over the course of his career. His work as a director, spanning diverse genres, [2] is widely regarded as extremely influential. [3] [4] [5]

  24. Documentary film

    Documentary film. A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a historical record ". [1] Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in terms of "a filmmaking practice, a cinematic tradition, and mode of audience reception [that remains ...

  25. First Man (film)

    First Man is a 2018 American biographical drama film directed by Damien Chazelle from a screenplay by Josh Singer, based on the 2005 book of the same name by James R. Hansen.The film stars Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong, alongside Claire Foy, Jason Clarke, Kyle Chandler, Corey Stoll, Christopher Abbott, and Ciarán Hinds, and follows the years leading up to the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon in ...