Lecture 4- From the big screen to the small screen

This weeks lecture outlined the history of film and television. It was quite interesting to see how it all started and what it has come to now.

Some of the main dates covered were:
1895 - This saw the birth of cinema on December 28th,
1897 - First cinema was built in Paris
1903 - The first narrative film: The Great Robbery
1906 - First feature length Australian narrative film was made: Ned Kelly
1920 - Expressionism
1921 - The introduction of Sound
1922 - Montage introduced
1923 - Animation
1925 - First in flight movie
1927 - Widely screened feature length Talkie: The Jazz Singer
1929 - First 100% natural colour, talking, singing, dancing picture
1933 - First drive in theater
1937 - First full length animated feature: Snow White
1939 - Television
1941 - Film Noir
1952 - 3D introduced
1953 - The B Movie
1955 - Movies on the Tv
1956- First videotape recorder
1963 - Multiplex Theatre
1966 - Startrek debuted
1967 - Portapak introduced
1969 - VCR for home use
1970 - IMAX
1971 - Blockbuster
1978 - Video laser Disc
1980 - HBO
1981 - MTV
1982 - Film and Video Arcade game
1985 - Home Blockbuster, Video film
1986 - Computer-Generated- Animation
1988 - Live action and animation: Who framed Roger Rabbit
1993 - El Mariachi
1994 - Pulp
1995 - Toy Story
1997 - DVDs
1998 - HDTV, VOD: Netflix
1999 - TiVo
2001 - Inspired by the game: Final Fantasy
2002 - Movies on Demand
2005 - Blu ray
2006 - Youtube
2007 - Broadband Release
2009 - Vibrating movie theater chair