The first ever fiction film.
Uses an old traditional set and contains a performance of a fairy tail style sequence.
What was new in 1895?
- Projecting Images
- The first films were just of things happening. A train moving. People leaving work.
- The spectacle was the important thing.
- The Lumiere Brothers created global system based on going city to city around the world showing them their city and then going on and showing other city's the cities they visited.
Cinema combined still photo, magic lantern, kinetiscope i.e visual accuracy, projection and movement.
By 1910 movie making was a huge entertainment industry.
By 1920 feature films were shown in huge purpose built picture palaces.
Benjamin Peters - "Most modern media pass through 5 periods"
- Technical Invention
- Cultural Innovation
- Legal regulation
- Economic Distribution
- Social Mainstream
