Friday, 12 November 2010

Timeline on Technology

Homework
Shaban Jahan 12A4
When did Cinema Start?
·      Cinema started in 19th century
·      Roundhay Garden Scene was the first film recorded in 1888 and it was filmed by Louis Le Prince in October.

When did sound arrive?
·      Before 1923 films were silent until 1923 films sound were made by live musicians and sound effects were spoken by the showmen or projectionist. 
·      In 1929 William Wellman changed the way sound was used during the time because he experimented with technology and pushed it further by using microphones and cameras as well as editing and post-synchronizing sound.
·       Sounds emphasized it benefited genres this means that musical film was produced
·      Film such as The Wizard of OZ become popular
When did colour film start
·      The colour film started and the first film was made with silver halide a photographic emulsion on clear base.
·      The earliest film made in colour were orthochromatic nitrate and recorded cyan ( blue and green)
·      The early filmmakers used the method to go further on making films better such as the film A trip to the moon in 1902
·      The first film that did commercially well was in 1905 by Pathe Frères and it was called
·      A technique was used in 1910s and this was know as film tinting which is a process of popular film base dye that gives the image of colour. This was popular because of the different type of effects used such as red for scenes with fire or firelight, blue for night etc.
·      Tinting happened in the late 1951 and it was used by Sam Newfield in his sci-fi film Lost Continent.


When did TV arrive?
·      TV came out in the early stages of 1920s
·      Images were transmitted by electrically mechanics e.g. fax machines and the pantelegraph 
·      The idea of telephonoscope was invented in 1878 which include telephone
·      Scanning was invented in 1881
·      Paul Gottlieb Nipkow a university student in Germany invented the first ever electromechanical television system in 1884.
·      John Logie Baird transmitted the first moving silhouette images in London in 1925
·      He later invented video camera in 1927
·      The 1990s had the modern developed digital signal- processing technology
·      The first broadcast was in Germany in 1929 and 1936 the Olympic games was broadcasted form Berlin

When did wide screen / panorama arrive?
·      Wide screen arrived in the late 1920s and they were used for short films and newsreels
·      The wide screen was used in Abel Gance’s film Nappleon in 1927 and in 19229 the fox film corporation released a fox grandeur news and fox moietone follies of 1929 in new York
·      In 1953 masked (flat) was introduced.
·      In the 1970s large gauge was in format.
·      Large gauge was used in Ron Howards movie far and away
·      IMAX also becomes popular for blockbuster films.
·      1954 there was the paramount’s VistaVision which showed 70 mm film
·      Star wars showed by paramount’s VistaVision




When did 3D come out?
·      3D films have been existed from the 1950s.
·      3D was shown worldwide in 1980s and 1990s by IMAX and Disney
·      3D become more successful in 2000s to 10
·      Films such as Avatar become blockbusters
·      Over the years different methods have been used.
·      In 1948  used prior method during  the film Golden Era
·      Another method used in the 21st century is polarization system
·      Another method is eclipse method and this method was used in 1922
·      The new systems allows people to watch 3D moives without glasses
·      This system was known as Autosteroscopic display the image is very sharp.
·      The first Autosterroscopic LCD monitor was shown in 2004
·      In 2009 and 2010 in Japan launch a mobile version.

When did video technology come out?
·      Video technology came out in 1894
·      These’s videos were music video e.g. the little lost child
·      In the early 1930s cartoons featured music video become popular
·      In the 1940s Panoram and  jukebox become popular
·      Musical films came out in videos during 1930s and 1950s
·      E.g. Material Girl and Thriller
·      Computers like Mac, Mac book , Mac pad etc
·      Cameras
·      Mobile phones
·      Other video technology’s
References
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_CGI_in_films

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