History of film

Films at the time were no longer than one reel, although some multi-reel films had been made on the life of Christ in the first few years of cinema. The first feature length multi-reel film in the world was the 1906 Australian production called The Story of the Kelly Gang

The history of film began in the 1890s, when motion picture cameras were invented and film production companies started to be established. Because of the limits of technology,films of the 1890s were under a minute long and until 1927 motion pictures were produced without sound.

The highest grossing film ever was Avatar directed by James cameron
The second highest grossing film was Titanic directed by James cameron
The third highest grossest film was Star wars the force awakens directed by JJ abrams
The fourth highest grossing film was Jurassic world
Avatar made 2.788 billion dollars in the box office.
The first camera ever was built in 1888 by George eastman.
George eastman was born July 12th 1854 and passed away March 14th 1932.
George lived through the Civil War and World War 1.
The first ever projected film was only 6 minutes and 30 seconds.
One of the highest grossing directors is Steven Spielberg.

Some high grossing trilogies are Star wars, Back to the future, Spider man, Evil dead, And Lord of the rings.

THE HISTORY OF CGI

Westworld (1973) First use of 2d computer digitized images.
Star wars (1977) First use of 3D vector graphics
Tron (1982) extensive use of 3D CGI.
Young Sherlock Holmes (1985) First 3D animated character.
The abyss (1989) First 3D water effect.
Total recall (1990) Use of motion capture for CGI character’s.
Death becomes her (1992) First human skin CG software.
Jurassic park (1993) First photorealistic CGI character’s.
The Mask (1994) First film to blend live action with human effects.
The Matrix (1999) First use of CGI interpretation of bullet time effect.
Hollow Man (2000) An anatomically correct working computer model was of an entire body.
Spider man (2001) First use of 3D maya software.
Final fantasy: The spirits within (2001) First feature length digital film to be made based of live action principles.
The lord of the rings:The two towers (2001) first use of AI for digital actors.

Lens flare used to be a mistake in hollywood films, But now sci-fi and action flicks where a badge by covering the screen with an anamorphic flares.

Films like Star trek Directed by JJ Abrams, Super 8 Directed by JJ Abrams,
And Star wars: the force awakens directed by JJ Abrams (Are you seeing a trend here).

Lens flares happen when light goes inside the lens and goes everywhere, Then when you get the cameras rolling you have a lens flare on your screen.

But there’s something called an anamorphic lens that has an oval shape so that when lights do come in that you get a more JJ Abrams feel to your flick.

Lens flare is the light scattered in lens systems through generally unwanted image formation mechanisms, such as internal reflection.

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Before CGI movie directors had to rely on practical effects and models to sell their look and feel for their scenes.

Movies like Star trek Deep space 9 used a whole bunch of models like the Enterprise, The deep space space station, and more.

They also used real exploding models for a more realistic feel.



Models were always useful when you couldn't fly over huge cities to get one shot, So the would use landscape models to give the illusion that you're seeing a real city and all the real car’s, Billboards, Buildings and more but really you're just seeing a model in a soundstage.

Models take lots of time to make, If your model is a huge space station then you're going to have to insert hundreds of hundreds of lights to sell your space station effect.

When you mold a model then you have to create negative space where when you mold it all the detail will be.

Molding a model can be a hard job too, I mean you have to create your negative space, Put your liquid inside, Let it sit, Take out your mold, Paint it, and (If needed) Add lights or (If needed) Explosive’s.

Models can also be hard to work with, If you need a truck to go flying into the air and explode on the ground you are going to have to take the truck and put a string on it to give the flying effect, Then you have to have to have an explosive on the ground so that when the truck hits it it explodes or You have an explosive inside the truck so that when it hits the ground it explodes from the inside.

In modern day films people can use miniature's and people won’t notice.

Film tid-bit: The Hollywood sign was originally made of wood, And it was actually called The Hollywoodland sign, And when they were going to take down the sign a young woman crawled to the top of the H and jumped off, And now the Hollywood sign is made of and shiny plaster.