The film first appeared on the screen on December 28th, 1895 in Paris. This film shown was the world’s first screen comedy. This movie is about a boy who stands on the hosepipe blocking the flow of water when he removes his foot.
In 1872, Eadweard Muybridge was asked to settle a bet: one way or the other at any point in a horse’s gallop are all four legs off the ground. Five years later in 1877, bet by setting up a system of 12 separate stills cameras spaced 21 inches apart each camera ran on a tripwire. That was triggered by the horse’s hooves here a succession of photographs gives the impression of movement.
In 1891, the American inventor Thomas Edison had perfected the kinetoscope. A year later, in 1892 Emile Reynaud projected the first animated film on his kinetoscope.
In England, two pioneers Robert W Paul and Bert Akers had invented the first British 35 millimeter camera in 1895. Robert W Paul demonstrated his projector the theatre graph on the 21st of February 1896. The same day that the Lumiere system was displayed in London. His most successful early film was the Derby shot four months later in June 1896 when Robert W Paul showed his film the day after the race of two music halls.
Film is often shown in musicals in between the variety acts a lot of these. Early films utilize those same variety acts and put them on the screen as subject magic this is an act called a serpentine dance.
George became interested in magic tricks. George Melia his trademark style was filming the fantastic about 100 years ago George Malley a imagined the future we’re heading towards a Channel Tunnel day, and George Miller made a film about the Channel Tunnel it was about 100 years ago he imagined the future.
In 1897 George Melia built the world’s first film studio here in Montreux. In Mont Royal on the outskirts of Paris George Melly a film studio is a few hundred yards that way this studio was built by Charles pate. In 1904, the glass ceiling allows natural daylight to flood in at that stage electric light wasn’t powerful enough, and because no sound was being recorded you can make a couple of films at the same time in the same studio. They produce more and quicker soon they were producing 16 films a month, employing up to 1700 people and with a worldwide distribution network a cottage industry, became a global phenomenon meanwhile back across the channel.
George Albert Smith was a stage hypnotist and magic lantern exhibitor. Here’s one of the magic lanterns he would have worked with George was the English Mellie azor. If you prefer Mellie aise was the French Smith both men were experienced state performers and both wanted to make films are entertaining and amusing, he was one of Smith’s earliest efforts this is the Quaker maintance a simple single setup so typical of very early cinema here at the whole Museum.
The important thing about Williams and he was very influenced by Smith’s work. But he took it further as why he developed the film narrative so he was one of the first filmmakers to develop multi shot films, and also for dramatic effects cutting from one shot to another from different camp cameras and different camera angles to create a dramatic effect.
Alice kee began making films for go mont in either 1896 or 1897 by either date. She’s a pioneer she was a fairly accomplished filmmaker with a keen sense of humor this is how monsieur takes his bath from 1903. How do you introduce novelty into standard street scene well Alice does this. This is Alice key in Spain in 1905 compared these people’s reaction to a camera with a modern crowd.
Fred Evans film once the babies knocked out of the pram is then used as a fan. Fred Evans was a very popular English comedian. Whose career had begun in the musical a predominantly working-class entertainment the musical provided ready-made acts for the early years of cinema. Fred specialized in parodies of dramatic stories.
Andre Deed left passe in 1908. He joined eat ala an Italian film company this is a an extract from an Andre deed film. We’ve had accompany in these films so far brilliantly and beautifully for us. But not always where these films just accompanied by music also had sound effects to them for our next film.
Here is Max Louies at the family home in southwest France. That other comedians would remember and later use themselves and here’s Buster Keaton in the goat within a couple of years of Max’s debut. He was the most popular comedian in the world.
When Hollywood took over as the leader of world cinema the end of the Great War, the language of cinema was already fully formed. Not only had film pioneers, invented the moving picture camera and projector, they’d also invented film techniques editing fades screen wipes double exposure and early systems for color and camera movement. At the end of the war the previous dominance of the European film industry was over Hollywood took the lead and it never gave.
The trip to the moon shot in 1902 was one of the most famous films at the time. But that film has remained with the moon and the end of rocket and be one of the very famous images of early cinema.