Saturday, August 22, 2009

Summary, lecture 4

BIG SCREEN TO the small screen!

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Timeline:

1895: Birth of Cinema
1906: First feature length narrative film (in Australia, by Australian) - few years later Europe, then USA
1927: First spoken film ('Talkies') -> 'The Yazz singer'
1929: First all colour movie
1933: First drive- in theatre (in New Jersey)
1937: Disney released 'Snow White', animated movie
1939: first TV, but only very little shows on TV
1939- 1952: hieps of movies were produced during these years
1952: 3 D
1955: Hollywood started to produce movies for television
1956: first videorecorder
1959: 'Percepto Vision' invented by a horror film producer (it gave little electro shoks), 'smell cinema'
1963: videorecorder for consumer, multiplex theatre- now blockbuster movies were shown
1967-69: Sony introduced VCR + Portapak
1970: Imax
1972: pay TV (in America)
1985: first blockbuster video store where you could rent movies
1986:Computer-Generated-Animation(Luxo Jr., Pixar)
1995: 'Toy Story'
1997: DVD, Video
2001: BMW 'The Driver', production of a short film for the Internet (with the brand new BMW in it)
Today: everybody can produce little films and put it on the Internet, for example 'YouTube' (TROOPS)
(pictures: google images)

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