History of Film

Before Films were discovered people used to go to theaters and watch live performances. In the Late 1800s significant figures started to develop different elements of Film. In the early 1900s Films had started their production though they didn't have colorgand unsynchronized sound. This new invention of moving pictures must have seemed like magic to the audiences. The first films started at only 2 minutes but soon evolved into a 20 minute film. In 1927 the film "The Jazz Singers" was released which featured synchronized sounds for the first time. The 1930s came and many horror themed movies were released. Disney which had been in the Film industry since 1920s and worked on animated films rather than live footage started to grow bigger in the 1940s by releasing many different animated films such as Pinocchio and Bambi. This was mostly considered as the golden age of Film as many film studios such as Columbia and Warner brothers were dominating the film industry. The early 1950s came and TV was introduced and by the end of the decade 55million people had TVs in there houses. Melvin Van Peebles a man who got rejected by Hollywood heard that France was subsidizing filmmakers so he moved to France, learned the language and started making movies. After some time Melvin got Hollywood's attention and Colombia pictures funded him to make "Watermelon Man" however studios were still not giving Melvin authority over the full projects as they thought it wouldn't sell well but were proven wrong by “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song,”  release in 1971 which grossed $10,000,000. in 1981 MTV was launched and took the film industry by storm by releasing music videos and short films. Bollywood which was around since the 1940s also started gaining attention in the 1990s outside of India and started to vastly expand its industry. YouTube made its entrance in 2005 with infinite channel possibilities you could watch watch whatever you wanted and whenever you wanted.