History Of Film

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

In the 1890s, films were seen mostly via temporary storefront spaces and traveling exhibitors or as acts in vaudeville programs. A film could be under a minute long and would usually present a single scene, authentic or staged, of everyday life, a public event, a sporting event or slapstick. There was little to no cinematic technique, the film was usually black and white and it was without sound.

The first eleven years of motion pictures show the cinema moving from a novelty to an established large-scale entertainment industry. The films represent a movement from films consisting of one shot, completely made by one person with a few assistants, towards films several minutes long consisting of several shots, which were made by large companies in something like industrial conditions.The year 1900 marks the emergence of the first motion pictures that can be considered as "films" at this point, film-makers begin to introduce basic editing techniques and film narrative. 

The first film was made in 1878 and the film is titled The Horse In Motion, created by Eadweard Muybridge.

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Muybridge was asked by Leland Stanford (railroad magnate, California senator, race-horse owner, and eventual founder of Stanford University) to answer a popularly debated question: When a horse trots, do all four hooves leave the ground simultaneously? Muybridge's stop motion film made it clear that they do.

And in today's films have grown tremendously and are using a lot of new techniques, and certainly movies will grow further than we think right now.