1. The History Of Film
BY OLLIE DWYER

2. The First Film
 The first film was created in the late 1880’s with the creation of
the film movie camera
 The first real film, Roundhay Garden scene, produced by Louis
Le Prince on October 14, 1888 in Leeds England is the oldest
surviving motion picture, and is thought to be the first recorded
film
 This film was black and white, and was only a few seconds long,
however it was big step in the entertainment industry
 One of the first cameras that was produced for filming is the
pinhole camera, it is thought that this camera was used in the
first film

3. Colour Filming
 Colour filming was not seen until the beginning of 1932.
The first recorded surviving colour film was a cartoon
produced by Walt Disney, called ‘Flowers and Trees’
(July 1932)
 The first live action films were ‘The Cat And The Fiddle’
and ‘The House Of Rothschild’, which were produced in
1934 by 20th Century Pictures/United Artists
 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-19557914 this
link shows the very first records of a colour film in 1902,
however this was not released for the film and
entertainment industry

4. Hollywood ‘Golden Film Age (1930’s 1940’s)’
 The biggest major film studios in this period were 20th
century fox, Warner brothers, Paramount, Colombia
and Universal studios
 Walt Disney was also important in Hollywood at this
time but Disney was still an independent Production
company and not a major entity
 All of these film production company’s went on from this
era to create many successful films, and make millions of
dollars in the film industry
 Each of these production company’s ‘the big six’ are still
running today

5. First Film with sound
 This first film with sound was made and produced in 1923 but
this was only through sound incorporting, effectively talking
pictures
 However the first real film with sound that wasn’t added in
over existing previous shots was released in October 1927, this
film was called ‘The Jazz Singer’
 This was an American music film which was produced by
Warner Brothers
 its Vita phone sound-on-disc system, the movie stars Al
Jolson, who performs six songs. The film is based on The Day
of Atonement, a play by Samson Raphaelson.

6. First ever cinema
 The first theatre in the world exclusively devoted to
showing motion pictures was the Nickelodeon, which
was opened on June 19th, 1905 in Pittsburgh Penn
 The theatre was invented by Harry Davis and John P.
Harris who moved 96 seats into an empty store at
433-435 Smithfield Street, transforming it into the
world's first movie theatre