The Evolution of Cinema

The Evolution of Cinema

What is Cinema?

The Rise of Cinema

Where Did Cinema Come From?

Cinema, also known as motion picture, is the art of moving images, a visual medium that tells stories and exposes reality.

The Addition of Color

• By the time 1914 rolled around, many film industries had been established.
• Films became longer, and storytelling and narrative played the more dominant role in cinema.
• Because of World War I, the film industry was extremely limited in Europe, but the American industry grew quite considerably in comparison to Europe.

• The invention of Cinema is not tied down to one person specifically.
• In 1891, the Edison company invented the world's first kinetoscope, which enabled a person to view moving pictures.
• However, the first to present projected moving pictures was the Lumiere brothers in 1895.

• At first, color was added to film by using toning and stenciling. However, by 1906, the principles of color separation were used to produce "natural coloured" moving images with the Kinemacolor process. This was first shown to the public in 1909.
• Early processes used by Technicolor were actually very cumbersome and expensive, and they weren't actually used much until the late 1930s. However, this process was still considered very expensive and luxurious at this time. It wasn't until the 1960s that most film industries had their hands on this process.

What's Next for Cinema?

The Addition of Sound

Early Cinema Characteristics

• It is common knowledge that sound was not around in early cinema. The first attempts to add synchronized sound to projected pictures was around the late 1920s and it involved the use of phonographic cylinders and disks.
• The first film actually used Warner Brothers Vitaphone system, which employed a separate record disc with each reel of film for the sound. However, the system proved unreliable and was soon replaced by an optical, variable density soundtrack that was recorded photographically along the edge of the film.

• It was generally very short pieces of cinema.
• It was shown mostly everywhere in the beginning.
• Films were usually accomodated by lecturers, music, and a lot of audience participation, so even though the movies didn't have synchronized dialoge, they were by no means, "silent events."
• The cinema was not popular immediately, but soon grew in popularity, thus giving the film industry more money to invest in the production of their films.

The art of cinema is one which changes consistently. In just the last 20 years, film production has been significantly warped by the impact of rapidly improving digital technology. Though some productions may still be shot on film, (although even this is becoming less common) most of the processes-- such as editing and special effects, are done by on the computer before the final images are transferred back to film, but even the need for this final transfer is decreasing as more and more cinemas invest in digital production. This sort of production is capable of producing screen images that rival the sharpness, detail, and brightness on traditional film projection.

Despite the use of film diminishing, the movie industry is ever-growing, and the wonders of what the future holds remain to be seen.

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