Motion Film

History
Ø -Preceded by plays and dances with similar concepts to film

Ø -First motion picture…Roundhay Garden Scene 1888
o -no techniques (editing)
o -one time shots, very static

Ø -Silent films emerge in the World War I era
o -Birth of a Nation 1914, most famous film of era
o -Prepared lists of orchestras were used for music

Ø -Color starts to emerge during the World War II era
o -Color became the same cost as black and white
o -By the 1960s, color was the norm in the motion picture industry

Ø -Digital, animation, and the rise of film schools shape what we know movies as today
o -Emergence of HD and Blu Ray discs
o -Digital screens
o -IMAX is a 3-D style for movies

Economy/Cultural/Social of Movies

Ø -1.3 americans employed

Ø -200,000 a day for where they are shot

Ø -9.5 billion trade surplus

Ø -1920’s 2/3 of neighborhoods go every week

Ø -1940’s 90 million stop going because of television

Ø -1980’s 4.6 billion to 1 billion

Ø -Today..DVD’s, piracy and on demand lessens the movie go-ers

Fun Facts of Movies

Highest Grossing Projects
Titantic $600,788,188

Lowest Grossing Project
Zyzzyz Road $30.00

Longest Movie
The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple 27 hours

Most Expensive Movie
Pirates of the Carribbean $300,000,000

Highest Paid Actor
Johnny Depp 56 million for Pirates 4

History of Movies Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CDyjMouQyc

Sources
http://www.mpaa.org/press_releases/mpa%20us%20economic%20impact%20report_final.pdf
http://my.spill.com/profiles/blog/show?id=947994:BlogPost:816018#