Most films of the dawning era were completely silent. An announcer had to come on stage before the show and explain the plot and setting, or the audience would have no idea what was going on. But, there was a solution, and that solution was film with audio! Filmmakers tried, but often the film and sound were out of sync, leaving the viewers unhappy. But eventually, the first sucessful synchronous film was Warner Brothers "Don Juan". Released in 1926, it consisted of a musical score and sound effects.
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"Don Juan" was also the first feature length film to include real, recorded dialouge.
In films, many different types of shots were invented over the years. For instance, the close up, or a shot of only someone's face or body, was rarely used in early films because directors thought that viewers would lose track of what was happening in the scene. However, some of the first examples of this shot were in films such as "As Seen Through a Telescope" and "Grandma's Reading Glass".
When the popularity of film-making began to sky-rocket, film-makers took advantage of this opportunity to both make more advanced cameras, and start to tell actual stories with the medium. The world's very first feature film was "The Story of the Kelly Gang", and it's film reel was upwards of 4,000 feet. It was first shown at the Anthenaeum Hall in Collins Street, Melbourne, Australia on December 26, 1906. It traced the life of the legendary infamous outlaw Ned Kelly. It was written and directed by Charles Tait, and it was about an hour and ten minutes long.
The reality of the progression of editing, camera work, setting up shots, and setting the scene was that it was mostly done in things OTHER than real films. The first rotating camera for a panning shot was built by Robert W. Paul in 1897, before the first feature length film, for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. He used his camera to shoot the procession in one shot, His device had the camera mounted on a vertical axis that could be rotated by a worm gear driven by turning a crank handle.
The very first film ever made was what we would now almost call a 'gif'. It was merely a few seconds, and it was called "Sally Gardner at a Gallop", or "Horse in Motion", as it's referred to by most. It was directed by Eadweard Muybridge, who was fascinated with the study of moving film. (He also shot and killed a man his wife was having an affair with.) But, the question is, was it actually a film?
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There were about three uses of a camera before the big whammy - an ACTUAL FILM. The first film to be made for projection was "Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory". This was only a test screening, and it was a success. The Lumiere's then held their first paid, public screening of movies on December 28, 1895 in the basement of the Salon Indien du Grand Cafe in Paris.
CGI is used often in modern films. Sometimes to "spruce things up", sometimes to create action without the grueling work, and sometimes to animate whole movies. The first example of CGI being used in a film is "Hummingbird", a ten minute computer-animated film released in 1967 by Charles Csuri and James Shaffer. It was awarded a prize at the 4th International Experimental Film Competition in Belgium.
Now a days, 3D in films are a dime a dozen. People actually groan when they're forced to put on the glasses. But think of back in... let's say, 1922. You're in Los Angeles, and you see a poster at the Ambassador Hotel Theater. It's called "The Power of Love". It advertises that it features two endings - a happy one and a tragic one. You could see either depending on which lens you looked through. This is technically not 3-D, but it was the first film to utilize the red-and-green dual camera technology.
When most people think of the first films to be in color, most think of "The Wizard of Oz", or "Gone With the Wind". In fact, the real answer to this mystery is significantly more obscure. The first film to be shot in Technicolor was a silent film, predating those two classics, which both were released in 1939. Released in 1918, the first colored film was a silent film called 'Cupid Angling'.