The now giant film industry once started as a 19th century scientific attempt to visualize the cinematic marvels. One person alone is not responsible for the invention of cinema. However the first public kinectoscope demonstration by Edison Company took place in 1893 which allowed one person at a time to view moving pictures.
-Lumiere brothers were the first to present projected moving pictures to a paying audience in 1895 in Paris, France. They used the cinematographe which was a camera, a projector and a film printer all at once.
-Early films were mostly only a few minutes long. These were not necessarily 'silent' films as they are commonly portrayed even though they had no synchronized dialogues, the films contained music and lectures as well as audience participation.
-The films were black and white, did not contain recorded diegetic or non-diegetic sounds and were shot from a steady camera.
-By early 20th century, many national film industries were established throughout the world. Russia, Europe and Scandinavian industries were the most dominant. Now films were more longer, narrative and adapted a storytelling format. With growing demand, investments flowed in and paved way for better production, distribution and exhibition.
-The first few decades of cinema were dominated by the growth and advancement of technology, establishment of narrative form and development of industrial base.
-Adding color to movies was firstly done through hand coloring, toning, tinting and stenciling. By 1906 natural colored moving pictures were produced using the principles of color separation. The first British kinemacolor process was presented to the public in 1909. Kinemacolor was used in the making of The Dehli Durbar of 1912.
-The use of technicolor processes increased with the introduction of its three-color process in 1932. It was used in the making of Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind (both 1939).
-In the first efforts of adding synchronized sounds to film, phonographic cylinders or discs were used. The first feature length film which had synchronized sounds was The Jazz Singer (1927) which used Warner Brother's Vitaphone system. This system was soon replaced by an optical soundtrack.
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