Key Developments In Film And Film Technology (component 1b)

Flashcards covering key developments in film and film technology.

Netflix (2007)

First legal streaming service for film and TV.

Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

Hollywood film shot entirely with IMAX cameras.

Tangerine (Sean Baker, 2015) & Unsane (Steven Soderberg, 2018)

Successful feature length films shot entirely on iPhones.

Film and TV streaming and download sites (2017)

Sites overtake DVD sales for the first time.

Lightweight cameras and mobile phone technology (2010s)

Technology available to ordinary people sees a rise in 'citizen film-making'.

Toy Story (John Lasseter, 1995)

First CG (computer generated) feature length cartoon.

Widespread use of computer-generated imagery (1990s onwards)

Move away from filmed special effects to visual effects created digitally. Pioneered by Industrial Light and Magic George Lucas company

Steadicam technology 1975 by Garret Brown

a stabilising device for hand-held cameras to keep image 'steady' whilst retaining fluid movement.

Lightweight, portable cameras (Late 1950s)

Had an immediate impact on documentary filmmaking.

Beginnings 1895

The earliest days of film.

Lumière brothers (1895-1927)

The first moving images were created by…

Key Developments (1895-1927)

Silent cinema developed from early short films to full-length feature films, foundations of filmmaking established.

The foundations of film (1895-1927)

Principles of lighting and continuity editing, extensive range of Misè-en-scene and location shooting.

1920s Developments

A vertically integrated Hollywood film industry gradually emerged, established by 1930.

The so-called 'Big 5' and 'Little 3' (1920s)

Five major studios (Paramount, Warner Bros, MGM, Twentieth Century Fox, and RKO) and three minor studios (Columbia, Universal, and United Artists).

The Jazz Singer (Alan Crosland, 1927) Staring Al Jolson

The first feature film with a synchronised soundtrack.

Becky Sharp (Rouben Mamoulian, 1935)

The Technicolor Corporation's first feature length, 'three strip' colour film.

Paramount court case (1948)

Prevented studios from owning all phases of the production, distribution and exhibition process (vertical integration).

Paramount court case (1950s)

Emergence of independent film production and agents producing films for the Hollywood studios to distribute and exhibit.

1950s Developments

Emergence of widescreen and 3D technologies.