Cinematography, which has become commonplace today, was invented at the end of the 19th century, when the first movie was demonstrated. The original idea of this invention was to create moving images.
Particularly popular with cinema came in the 20th century, when an entire film industry was formed. Now it is a significant part of modern culture, and it all began with an attempt to create a moving image on a material medium and project it onto the screen.
At that time, technical inventions were needed to solve this problem, in particular, a photosensitive and flexible film, a projector, and an apparatus allowing chronographic shooting were required. For decades, many well-known inventors have struggled with this task. Over time, they managed to create a technique capable of filming, after which a demonstration of the first movie in history took place. This happened in Paris on 03/22/1895, thanks to the work of the Lumiere brothers.
For a narrow circle of friends they showed a short tape, which was called "Exit workers from the Lumiere factory." This was the first movie. A little earlier, in February of this year, the Lumiere brothers patented the first device that allows you to get a moving image.
It was they who created the combined movie camera and brought to life the idea of creating a movie. There was a demonstration of the first movie in Paris on Capuchin Boulevard, entrance to it was paid. In the basement of the Grand Cafe, the film “Arrival of the Train at La Suite Station” was shown. Following this short film, viewing of other short works of the Lumiere brothers began. The demonstration of the first film was continued by the comic scene “The Watered Waterer”, and then several more movies were also offered to the public.
There is a version that while watching a session, spectators, amazed by the movement of the train, jumped up from places, for fear of being crushed or injured. This first commercial movie show marked the beginning of world cinema.
The first film made in Russia was shown in 1908. In the month of October, they showed a seven-minute picture “Ponisova Volnitsa”. It was a tape shot based on a song about Stepan Razin. The first film show in Russia was a little earlier. It was held in the summer garden "Aquarium" in St. Petersburg in 1896 and was a ten-minute selection of films Lumieres. This event was not specially organized. Cinema was shown during the intermission of a musical performance. The audience was delighted. A couple of days after this, the first film show was held in Moscow. Interestingly expressed his impressions of cinema M. Gorky. He characterized it with the following words: "" The shadow of life or the soundless shadow of movement. "
Private film entrepreneurs in the pre-revolutionary years in Russia made a large number of films. Most often, cinema in Russia in those years was an adaptation of love melodramas or literary classics, one of them was even the historical large-scale film “Defense of Sevastopol”. Today he could be called an action movie.
The post-revolutionary period was characterized by the adoption of a decree of the Council of People's Commissars on the nationalization of the cinema department. The cinema of Russia and the entire cinema industry have since passed into the jurisdiction of the Commissariat of Public Education. This event was marked in 1979 by the decision to establish an all-Union holiday in honor of him. Today it is called Russian Cinema Day, and in honor of the first public film show held, another holiday is celebrated, which was called International Cinema Day.
The era of sound cinema began in 1927 with the film company Warner Brothers. The painting "Jazz Singer" was a huge success, bringing huge profits. The first domestic sound fiction film is “A ticket to life”, which was shown in March 1931.
In 1922 the first color film was released, it was very primitive, and it was not appreciated by the audience. The first full-length color short film is La Cucaracha, and the first full-length film appeared in 1935 and marked the beginning of color cinema.