The film is a
technique involving in the shooting of images quickly and successively in order
to get feeling movements, which are called frames.
These tapes are recorded in
celluloid form of chemistry. Subsequently are reproduced with the projector
is a device that consists of optical and mechanical components.
Origins
Since the beginning of time
man has tried to represent the movement of the scenes of daily life.
In the sixteenth century came
the camera obscura which consisted of a box with a black interior and a
hole in it to project what was happening outside.
A century later Athanasius
Kircher invented magic lantern. It was a box with a light in which
they moved drawings on glass which were increased. Currently these devices are
called diáscopos or projectors transparencies.
In the nineteenth century
featured a revolutionary invention, photography, and with it the
stamping of images. Several curious decided to go beyond in order to capture
scenes in motion.
These curiosities led to other
inventions such as gun photographic Etienne Jules Marey (1882), Praxinoscopio
of Emile Reynaud (1880) or celluloid film of the brothers Hyatt (1868).
The silent
film
The year 1895 saw the
first film screening in Paris by the Lumiere brothers who
recorded "the arrival of a train station Ciotat."
A principios del siglo XX Georges
Méličs is the inventor and pioneer of science fiction with "trip to
the Moon" in 1902. Beside him compete Spanish Second Chomón
with films like "Hotel electric" (1908).
The film industry begin to be
a reality in the twentieth century. Edison will be the great defender of
the cinema and of this industry in the USA.
In this era of film
highlights many actors and actresses such as Charlie Chaplin, Buster
Keaton, Douglas Fairbanks, Edna Purviance or Harold Lloyd.
Principles
of sound movies
The silent film began its
decline with the onset of the film "The Jazz Singer" in which studies
Warner Bros. introduced dialogues for the first time.
With the advent of this new
film also opened the concept of a soundtrack. The music of the films
created by great composers left at the side of the silent film pianist.
The color film made
its foray into the world of cinema in 1935 with the film "Fair of vanities".
Subsequently, the boom of this kind of film was marked by the movie "what
the wind was."
With the outbreak of World
War II films left his role as entertainment to make way for propaganda
and the national patriotic exaltation.
Time of postwar
After World War II levels of
hearing cinemas started to decline gradually thanks to the introduction of
television programs.
In Europe, several countries
mired in postwar continued political propaganda. Other countries like France or
the United Kingdom engaged in realistic cinema and protectionist
respectively.
It created a great
expectation for black cinema. Also in the year 1953 introduced a
technological advancement on the screens, Cinema Scope which is a
panoramic format.
Modern Cinema
In the'70s began to enter the
world of cinema over-the film that are spectacular works with large
budgets.
The following decade brought
with it the vision of a large number of films from home. To counter this action
large companies created great films.
After the 80 emerging digitally
created films as a whole, the recovery of past characters and even classics
of cinema.
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