1. Early Film History The Fantascope, circa 1830s

2. Photography was a new technology in the 1840s

3. It took fifty more years to invent film on a roll

4. Therefore, in 1892, when Thomas Edison developed the kinetograph camera, that could record moving (motion) pictures, it was very exciting!

5. Then he invented the kinetoscope and a new art form was created! This was the birth of the movie industry!

7. The movies, lasting only about 15 seconds, were shown in amusement arcades.

8. Edison’s “movies” had no storyline (narrative) but contained the same elements that we still love in our film stories: love, sex, strength, vice, family values, and naughty girls!

9. The Lumiere Brothers

10. In France, they developed the cinematographe. They could project their films onto a screen so that more than one patron could watch at a time.

11. This was the beginning of modern cinema

12. George Melies Another Frenchman, he set up Europe’s first film studio in the late 1890s

13. Melies was an illusionist, magician, and a wizard of special effects (for the theater)

14. He pioneered the 14-minute sci-fi film, A Trip to the Moon, in 1902. It featured: 30 scenes Special effects Slow motion Character development A plot Stop motion Fade in/fade outs

15. Edwin S. Porter “The Father of the Story Film”

16. This American innovator created The Great Train Robbery in 1903

17. Based on a true story, the film is important for many milestones: First narrative film Shot out of chronological sequencesequence Used cross-cutting First Western First “blockbuster” - established film as a profitable medium for entertainment Experimental camera work - including a scary, full-screen close-up of a bandit shooting the audience Camera ingenuity: dolly shots and pan shots

18. By 1905, flickers were no longer new. Audiences demanded more, and longer, movies.

19. Nickelodeons, the first movie theaters, became a place to go for an evening’s entertainment

20. Movies were accompanied by piano playing, sing-alongs, magic shows, lectures, skits, and vaudeville-type acts

21. Many critics denounced nickelodeons as morally corrupt, but this didn’t prevent the progress of the movie business, which soon replaced the nickelodeons with movie palaces