WEEK 4...

so week 4 came and went very quickly and soon our blogs will be up for marking :S

well... in the lecture we learnt some interesting history of the cinema.

we began with...
1895 Birth of cinema. they were a collection of twenty, one minute "actions"
20 shows a day were screened and every single one sold out because people had never seen moving images on screen before.

1906 First feature length 'narrative' film which was approximately 60 to 70mins long. The movie was "Ned Kelly - the story of the Kelly gang" made in Australia. 4 years after Australia released the first narrative film Europe followed.

1927 First time dialogue was recorded and played along side moving picture, this was known as 'talkies'.

1929 First all colour movie "on with the show" was released. Recorded and presented in colour.

1933 the first drive in theatre was built

1937 Disney released 'snow white' which was the first full lenght, all colour, singing and animated movie.

1939 Television was released at the New York trade fair.

1952 3D was introduced

1955 Hollywood started selling back catalogues of movies so people could watch movies on tv.

1956 Ampex made the first VCR but it wasn't available for the public to purchase.

1959 Percepto vision "the tingler"

1963 Ampex released consumer VCR which was valued at $30,000. This was also the year of the birth of multiplex theatres or theatres with more than 2 screens. We also saw the birth of 'blockbuster movies'.

1967 Sony introduced VCR and also the portapack so you could walk around and recorded footage and play it back later on.

1972 Pay tv was introduced into America

1985 the first blockbuster shop was opened

1986 Pixar produced the first full lenght CGI film 'luxo junior'

1995 Pixar made the movie 'toy story'

1997 DVD videos were first released

* between 1972 and 1997 internet was released*

2001 Internet films were created
BMW hired the best made short films - 8 short films of 10mins each known as 'the driver' starring Clive Owen.

So that pretty much wraps up the first section of the blog... stay tuned for next week