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The History of the cinema beings
when the brothers louis and auguste lumiére realized the first public projection of images in movenment in paris -
Technical and social causes that gave birth to the cinema
The emergence of new sources of mineral energy and the application of electricity to industrial uses.
The new means of transport (steam ship, railway), as well as communications-oriented innovations (telegraph, submarine cable, wireless telegraphy) brought with them a wide and rapid dissemination of information, which led to an effective globalization . -
The first session
The ten very short films of seventeen meters that composed the first programs presented by the Lumiére showed images absolutely vulgar and innocent. Films that, in shuffling a few variants, offered very prosaic subjects: The departure of the workers of the factory Lumiére Children's grin The moats of the Tuileries The arrival of the train The regiment The blacksmith Match of cards Destruction of weeds The demolition of a wall The sea -
Edwin S. Porter
Edwin S. Porter worked with Edison as a valet and as head of his studio. Fascinated by the work of Méliès, Porter also wanted to make a narrative cinema. In 1903, it premieres Assault and robbery (The great train robbery), film that initiated the genre of the western. -
Cinema and postmodernity
For some sector of the critic, the cinema entered towards the decade of 1980 in the postmodernism. Hence, there was talk of the exhaustion of the avant-gardes, of the imposition of the concept of simultaneity over that of continuity, of the recycling of old materials. Milestones of this postmodern cinema would be films like Blade Runner (1982) or Pulp Fiction (1994) -
The cinema and Internet
The generalization of computer-related technologies changed the film forever. The old special effects based on models and overprints began to be developed through computers. The first film with digital effects was Tron (1982), but from there the development was fulminante, to the point that in 1995 the company Pixar was able to realize the first largometraje entirely realized by computer -
Digital Cinema
El 2 de febrero de 2000, en París, Philippe Binant realizó la primera proyección pública de cine digital de Europa, fundada sobre la aplicación de un MEMS (DLP CINEMA) desarrollado por Texas Instrumentos
