Development of cinema

Some technological developments were essential for the cinema evolution:

The first one is the invention of the cinematography, that created the cinema itself, this machine was made the Lumiere brothers, but I have already talked about this creation in others posts, so if you want to know more, check my other posts.

A really important advance was when Georges Méliès made a rocket crash against the moon, he did it over putting images and models, this meant a huge advance that determined the way that the cinema was going to be made in the following years.

The colour was the next important step in the evolution of cinema, at the start, for making the movies in colour the people had to colour one by one all the photo grams of the film, was a really slow and complicated job, and in many cases the only used four colours as maximum.

The sound appeared in 1927 with Alan Crosland, this machine allowed to record music bands and actors talking in discs , like that afterwards it will be played at the same time as the film, letting the spectators to listen the movies.

The creation of the television revolutioned the cinema, people didn't want to go to the cinemas and pay for watching films when they could do it in their homes, but this only made the cinema better, because appeared a new machine for recording the moves that could take pictures almost three times faster than the TVs images, giving a much clearer image.

Interesting facts about cinema

1.Bruce Lee's agility

Bruce Lee's movements where so quick that they had to slow down some of the shots for making easier to watch to the audience because if they didn't they wouldn't be able to see his techniques, in the rest of action movies that include fight they had to make it faster.

 2.Charlie Chaplin's imitation competition

In July 1915 Charlie Chaplin presented to a competition that consisted in imitating Charlie Chaplin, but he didn't even arrive to the finals, in fact he was eliminated in the first round, after some time in an interview he said that he as tempted to show the judges how to do a proper Chaplin's walk.

3.Disney and the parents

101 Dalmatians, Mulan, the Sleeping beauty and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only four Disney's films in which doesn't die one or both of the parents of the characters.

4.William Shakespeare

Shakespeare is the writer that has been more times carried to the cinema, more than 350 films are about or based in the books of this writer, the most amount in the whole history.

5."El Laberinto del Fauno"

Is the first foreign fantastic film that was nominated as best movie of the year in the Oscars. The only person that didn't speak Spanish was Doug Jones, who sometimes spent more than five hours putting his costume on.

How did the cinema expand?

In 1912 the monopoly that United Stated had over the cinema finished, this moment gave freedom to other productors and directors start making cinema by their own, Europe got to the head counting the number of films produced that year, Italy was the country that produced more films.

In the next years, the film making industry in United Stated moved from New York to a small village called Hollywood, close to Los Angeles, when this happened this Little village becoming the name of this village in an icon for the world's cinema. The films that where made in those years where basically western ones that talked about the northamerican's civil war or comic films. The cinemas expanded all over the country really quickly. There was a huge demand for films, this brought more and more people that wanted to make cinema, some of this people where Harper Ince and Mack Sennet.

After the First World War the cinema was already a millionaire business, and in this years started coming out actors that people that felt identificate with and love them. One of this people was Charles Chaplin, who already was producing cinema around this years.

Origin of Cinema

 

Cinema appeared with the Lumiere brothers, based on an invention of Thomas Alva Edison, the Kinetoscope, they used this apparatus for making a machine that collected instant movement by taking a lot of photos in a short time. The first camera they made wasn’t able to reproduce the images it took. The first “film” that was played for a group of people was a bunch of workers coming out of a factory, and after that one, which wasn’t really famous was a train coming into a station, this film shocked the people that watched it, so it get really known and some people started building machines similar to Lumiere brother’s one.

 

But as an interesting fact, the actual first film in the world was done by Le Prince, it was 1.66 seconds long, with 50 photograms, and it was a woman walking in a garden, was a really small piece of cinema, but is the first image in movement that we know about, it was called “The scene in Rondhay’s garden”, in 1988 2 years before Thomas Alva Edison sent a prototype of a cinematograph, and seven years before the “first movie” ever, by the Lumiere brothers.

 

The first movie created by the Lumiere brother was a number of workers coming out from a factory, as I told you before, it was protected on a cinema called Indian Salon in the Great Cafe. Not many people went, only the people that saw the posters around the city and the people that were personally invited by the Lumiere brothers, and the witnesses say that the people there were completely surprised.

What is Cinema for me?

I consider cinema as my favourite hobby, when I don’t find anything to do I try to watch a film or a series, I consider a TV series as cinema, I think that it has the same effort doing it as a movie, and in many cases more. Most of the people think that cinema is only the movies that are shown in a big screen with a lot of people, and you have to pay for it, I consider it as art.

I have to say that nowadays we are really lucky, ten years, even five years ago, if you wanted to watch a movie or series you had to go to the cinema or wait every week for a new episode, but now with Netflix and all the other Internet places where you can find the movie or the episode you wanted to watch and you lost, is much easier to love cinema.

I remember when I was a kid going every weekend to the city centre of my village to a mobile

cinema, because the mayor organised a projector and you only had to pay 2 euros. My friends and I expend all the evening watching films, sometimes even five in a row. We loved those Saturdays enjoying cinema, even knowing that most of the films were really old, but that gave us a bit of culture and a way to expend our holidays, there was a point that we started watching the same films all the time, because there isn’t a huge display of movies on my town hall. When the school started again this mobile cinema disappeared, so I remember spending the entire evening in an old computer downloading films and copy them in Cd's, for after that watching them.

This are the main reasons why I love cinema, and everything it includes. 

Introduction

Hi my name is Isaac Robledo, I'm a Spanish student who is studying in Ireland, I love cinema, TV, and everything related to a camera. Feel free to give your opinion.