1. By Travis Quailey

2.  The film industry was
changing. Hollywood
studios were creating
longer, better-quality
films, creating a
generation of movie
stars in the process.
Gloria Swanson, Mary
Pickford, and Douglas
Fairbanks.

3.  Some of the first three
dimentional movies were
created Power of
Love (US '22), starring
Terry O'Neil and Barbara
Bedford and R. William
Neill's Mars, aka Radio
Mania (US '22), with
Grant Mitchell as an
inventor who succeeds in
making contact with
Mars via television.

4.  In 1917 The Gulf Between was the first film to
use Technicolor.

5.  The first movie to have a synchronized sound
track was Fritz Lang's “Siegfried” which was
produced in the year 1925.

6.  The first all-talking film “Lights of New York”
was released.

7.  First feature-length sound film in color:
MGM's The Viking, 1928. It had a
synchronized score and sound effects, but no
audible dialog.

8.  First all-color "talkie": Warner Brothers' On
With the Show

9.  First film in 3-color Technicolor: Walt
Disney's Silly Symphony: Flowers and Trees

10.  First feature film made entirely in 3-color
technicolor: Rouben Mamoulian's Becky
Sharp with Cedric Hardwicke and Miriam
Hopkins.

11.  The First colour film to be shot
entirely on location:
Paramount's The Trail of the
Lonesome Pine, The Trail of the
Lonesome Pine was directed by
Henry Hathaway. It was the
second full-length feature film
to be shot in three-strip
Technicolor and the first in
colour to be shot
outdoors, with the approval of
the Technicolor Corporation.

12.  First film ever to begin using
Kodak's Eastman Colour
process was a film known as
Royal Journey. Royal Journey
is a National Film Board of
Canada documentary film
chronicling a five-week Royal
visit by then-Princess
Elizabeth and the Prince
Philip, Duke of Edinburgh to
Canada and the United States
in the fall of 1951.

13.  Back in the 50′s and 60′s,
Hollywood had to combat the
growing threat of television by
introducing large format films to
audiences – Vista-vision, Cinerama,
Ultra-Panavision – all new forms of
film stock promising better image
quality to larger screen sizes to
improved sound… anything to
draw in a viewing audience more
readily able to sit in front of the TV
in their lounge-rooms and not go
out to the movies.

14.  The 'New Hollywood' or Post-classical cinema
was invented.

15.  There were sequels being created after films
already made, blockbusters and video-tapes
were being used as a new way to purchase
films and watch them on television.

16.  New special effects was being produced,
independent films, and DVDs were being
created instead of films being recorded on
VCR’s.

17.  1992-3: “pro logic” effect was transformed
with twin digital channel surround sound
formats – Dolby Digital and dts. Dolby Digital
debuted with the release of Tim
Burton’s "Batman Returns"
and Spielberg’s "Jurassic Park"

18.  The rapid rise of CGI animated feature films
was created and it was beginning with the
famous Toy cartoon and first animated movie
which was Toy Story.