History of Cinema

Hiatory of cinema:
No one person invented cinema. However,

in 1891 the Edison Company successfully
demonstrated a prototype of
the Kinetoscope, which enabled one
person at a time to view moving pictures.
The first public Kinetoscope
demonstration took place in 1893. By
1894 the Kinetoscope was a commercial
success, with public parlours established
around the world.
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.
History of Cinema in India
The Indian cinema industry dates
back to the 19th century, more than
a hundred years ago. The very first
film to be shot was by Lumiere
Brothers which was shown in
Mumbai. The Lumiere Brothers, born
in France, were the children of a
couple who ran a photographic
portrait studio in Besancon, France.
On the 7th of July 1896 the Lumiere
Brothers showcased six films at the
Watson Hotel in Mumbai. This
marked the birth of the now gigantic
Indian cinema. After the first films
were shown in Mumbai, Indians were
inspired and fascinated, which led to
yet another milestone in the history
of cinema. Harishchandra Sakharam
Bhatavdekar, commonly and
popularly known as Save Dada, who
was then a still photographer, drew
his inspiration from the ‘Lumiere
Brothers’ production and ordered a
camera from England during the
1800s. He shot a short clipping which
then was shown as a film was shot at
the Hanging Garden in Mumbai,
known as ‘The Wrestlers.’ It was a
small and a simple recording of a
wrestling match that was screened in
1899 and was considered as the first
motion picture of the movie Industry.
History of Cinema in
America
The first recorded instance of
photographs capturing and reproducing
motion was a series of photographs of a
running horse by Eadweard Muybridge,
which he took in Palo Alto,
California using a set of still cameras
placed in a row. Muybridge's
accomplishment led inventors
everywhere to attempt to make similar
devices. In the United States, Thomas
Edison was among the first to produce
such a device, the kinetoscope.
Harold Lloyd in the clock scene

from Safety Last! (1923)
The history of cinema in the United
States can trace its roots to the East
Coast where, at one time, Fort Lee, New
Jersey was the motion-picture capital of
America. The industry got its start at the
end of the 19th century with the
construction of Thomas Edison's "Black
Maria", the first motion-picture
studio in West Orange, New Jersey. The
cities and towns on the Hudson
River and Hudson Palisades offered
land at costs considerably less than
New York City across the river and
benefited greatly as a result of the
phenomenal growth of the film industry
at the turn of the 20th century.[11][12][13]
The industry began attracting both
capital and an innovative workforce. In
1907, when the Kalem Company began
using Fort Lee as a location for filming in
the area, other filmmakers quickly
followed. In 1909, a forerunner
of Universal Studios, the Champion Film
Company, built the first studio.[14] Others
quickly followed and either built new
studios or leased facilities in Fort Lee. In
the 1910s and 1920s, film companies
such as the Independent Moving
Pictures Company, Peerless
Studios, The Solax Company, Éclair
Studios, Goldwyn Picture
Corporation, American Méliès (Star
Films), World Film Company, Biograph
Studios, Fox Film Corporation, Pathé
Frères, Metro Pictures
Corporation, Victor Film Company,
and Selznick Pictures Corporation were
all making pictures in Fort Lee. Such
notables as Mary Pickford got their start
at Biograph Studios.
The first narrative feature film was the

60-minute The Story of the Kelly
Gang (1906, Australia).[3] The first
(proto)-feature-length adaptation was Le
s Misérables (1909, U.S.). Other early
feature films include The Inferno
(L'Inferno) (1911), Defence of
Sevastopol (1911), Quo
Vadis? (1913), Oliver Twist (1912)
(American version), Oliver Twist (1912)
(British version), Richard
III (1912), From the Manger to the
Cross (1912), Cleopatra (1912) and The
Birth of a Nation (1915).
SHORT
FILMS
In the United States, short films
were generally termed short
subjects from the 1920s into the
1970s when confined to two
35mm reels or less,
and featurettes for a film of three
or four reels. "Short" was an
abbreviation for either term.
The increasingly rare industry term
"short subject" carries more of an
assumption that the film is shown
as part of a presentation along
with a feature film. Short films are
often screened at local, national,
or international film festivals and
made by
independent filmmakers with
either a low budget or no
budget at all. They are usually
funded by film grants, nonprofit
organizations, sponsor, or
personal funds. Short films are
generally used for industry
experience and as a platform to
showcase talent to
secure funding for future projects
from private investors,
a production company, or film
studios.
ANIMATION FILMS
Animation is more pervasive than many
people know. Apart from short
films, feature films, television series,
animated GIFs, and other media
dedicated to the display of moving
images, animation is also prevalent
in video games, motion graphics, user
interfaces, and visual effects.[1]
HISTORICAL
Historical films can bring

into relief hidden or
competing histories that
either challenge or
compliment prevailing
narratives and
authoritative accounts of
the past, asking the viewer
to consider the present as
being shaped by multiple
histories, rather than by
one history.
SILENT FILM
silent film" is something of a
misnomer, as these films were
almost always accompanied by
live sounds. During the silent era
that existed from the mid-1890s to
the late 1920s, a pianist, theater
organist—or even, in large cities, a
small orchestra—would often play
music to accompany the films.
Pianists and organists would play
either from sheet music,
or improvisation. Sometimes a
person would even narrate the
intertitle cards for the audience.
Though at the time the technology
to synchronize sound with the film
did not exist, music was seen as
an essential part of the viewing
experience. The term is also
frequently used to describe sound-
era films that have a recorded
music-only soundtrack without
dialogue, such as City
Lights and The Artist.

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No one person invented cinema. However,

Harold Lloyd in the clock scene

The first narrative feature film was the

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