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How the flm industry has developed.

The history of lm started in the 1890s, with the creation of the rst

motion-picture cameras and the creation of the rst lm production

companies and cinemas.

The rst rotating camera for taking panning shots was built in 189 The rst lm studios were built in 189

rst use of animation in mo!ies was in 1899

"n 1900, continuity of action across successi!e shots was achie!ed

and the close-up shot was introduced.

The rst feature length multi-reel lm was a 190# $ustralian

production.

%y about 1910, actors began to recei!e screen credit for their roles,

and the way to the creation of lm stars was opened.

"n 191&'ew lm techni(ues that were introduced in this period

include the use of articial lighting, re e)ects and *ow-key lighting.

+uring 191&enresbegan to be used as categories the main

di!ision was into comedy and drama, but these categories were

further subdi!ided.

"n 191due to the war the e/hibition of lms changed from short

one-reel programmes to feature lms.

%y 191, continuity cinema was the established mode of

commercial cinema.

%y the 19&0s, the nited tates reached what is still its era of

greatest-e!er output, producing an a!erage of 800 feature lmsannually

ntil 19&, motion pictures were produced without sound

+uring late 19&, 2arners releasedThe 3a44 inger, the rst

synchroni4ed dialogue 5and singing6 in a feature lm.

%y the end of 19&9, 7ollywood was almost all-talkie, with se!eral

competing sound systems.

Thus began what is now often called The olden $ge of

7ollywood, which refers roughly to the period beginning with the

introduction of sound until the late 190s

+uring 19the desire for wartime propaganda created arenaissance in the lm industry in %ritain, with realistic war dramas

The 190s, marked a :olden $ge: for non-;nglish world cinema.

+uring the 19#0s, the studio system in 7ollywooddeclined, because

many lms were now being made on location in other countries, or

using studio facilities abroad.

+uring the 190s, lmmakers increasingly depicted e/plicit se/ual

content and showed gunght and battle scenes that included

graphic images of bloody deaths.

+uring the 1980s, audiences began increasingly watching lms on

their home s.

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"n the early 1980s, the lm studios tried legal action to ban home

ownership of s as a !iolation of copyright, which pro!ed

unsuccessful.

The *ucas?pielbergcombine would dominate 7ollywood cinema

for much of the 1980s, and lead to much imitation.

The early 1990ssaw the de!elopment of a commercially successful

independent cinema in the nited tates.

cinema was increasingly dominated by special-e)ects lms such as

Terminator &@ 3udgment +ay519916,3urassic Aark5199B6

andTitanic51996

CaDor $merican studios began to create their own independent

production companiesto nance and produce non-mainstream fare

"n &001, the 7arry Aotter lm series began, and by its end in &011, it

had become the highest-grossing lm franchise of all time.

Core lms were also being released simultaneously to "C$E cinema,the rst was in &00&:s +isney animation Treasure Alanet

The rst li!e action was in &00B:sThe Catri/ >e!olutions and a re-

release of The Catri/ >eloaded. *ater in the decade &008, The +ark Fnight was the rst maDor

feature lm to ha!e been at least partially shot in "C$E technology.

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