![]() ![]() Griffith and Douglas Fairbanks rebelled against the studios and started United Artists, promising to give actors more control of their own careers. In 1919, some of Hollywood’s biggest names, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, D.W. In Hollywood, the silent era featured forceful directors and motion picture studios needed to come up with the amount of money necessary to create movies - to pay for props and people and film and developing and technicians and set designers and the entire industry that we still know today. Unlike the theater, which required live actors, played to an audience of one at any time. Cinema was a new and inexpensive form of entertainment. In film history, the first movies were without synchronized sound, but that didn’t stop them from being widely popular. Two movies include Thomas Edison’s “The Great Train Robbery” and Georges Méliès “A Trip to the Moon.” Both movies came in under 20 minutes and delighted audiences who saw the world come alive before them in a way that must have seemed like magic. What is important is that by the dawn of the 20th century, people were suddenly making exceptional movies and thrilling audiences around the world. ![]() It took film and projectors to make a novelty into a practical industry. The Zoetrope is remarkable because it is technically everything that a traditional movie is and functions in the same way, but Zoetropes face limits in the length of a moving image they show. These significant figures in film history include George Eastman, of Eastman Kodak fame, one of the creators of the film, the Lumière brothers in 1895 who developed a practical movie camera, Thomas Edison who projected film and built an early studio, Eadweard Muybridge who in 1877 used a series of still cameras to take photos fractions of a second apart and Louis Le Prince who created Roundhay Garden Scene, a two-second movie from 1888 that survives to this day.īefore all of that, William George Horner invented the Zoetrope, a spinning wheel that showed moving images when viewed through a slit. In any event, there are multiple important people in the early days of cinema whose complementary contributions helped create what we have and know today. Several people probably invented what we think of today as movies around the same time. Like many inventions, the origin of motion pictures on film is murky. Consider all of these stepping stones for you to branch out into other directions down the almost limitless rabbit holes that is the history of cinema. ![]() There are whole books written about every single entry here. There’s no way you can even begin to cram the almost 150 years of film history into one article. Everything in this article is at the very least incomplete. ![]()
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