1895-1905: The first ten years of cinema

This is the first ten years of the birth of cinema...

December 28, 1895

The Lumière brothers on rue Capucine in Paris, France The Indian Room of the Grand Cafe No. 14 screened in public for the first time his own films "Factory Gate", "Train Arrival", "Water the Gardener", "Baby Lunch", and "Women Burning Grass" , "Departure Ship", "Delegates Landing", "Police Parade", "Tear Down the Wall", etc., and caused a sensation on the scene. This day is considered the birth day of the movie. Most of these films are shot from a single camera with a fixed point of view, and are documentary films that express realist life.

1900

"Attack on the Chinese Mission", directed by British pioneer director James Williamson, used the most mature narrative techniques at the time, using a series of shots to create continuity of behavior.

1901

"Eraserhead" In Georges Méliès's fantasy silent film, "moving photography" becomes a means of expression in the form of film stunts.

1902

The average length of film reels increased from 15 meters to 183 meters in preparation for longer feature films.

The film "A Trip to the Moon", adapted from the novel by Georges Méliès, is called "the first science fiction film in history." The plot of the film is based on Jules Verne's novel "From the Earth to the Moon" and Wells' novel "The First Man on the Moon". Méliès adopted the traditional style of a mythological drama and showed a group of astronomers exploring the moon on a cannonball.

1903

Edwin S. Bout's "The Life of an American Fireman" pioneered the use of coherent narrative and visual narrative techniques. His other 12-minute long "The Great Train Robbery" became the first western film in the history of world cinema and the first police film. The narrative scenes of "The Great Train Robbery" were shot separately. The montage technique is used to edit many shots, which can express the complete ideological content, narrate the story, and form a film (or a certain fragment) that can be understood by a broad audience. .

1904

Compared with "A Voyage to the Moon", Georges Méliès' "A Voyage into Space" has a more complex and concentrated storyline, and its imagination and scene expression are also richer and more vivid. But in terms of performance skills, the camera still has a band conductor-like perspective.

?1905

The first film "Dingjun Mountain" shot by the Chinese themselves was shot at Fengtai Photo Studio in Beijing and screened at Qianmen Grand View Tower. The film was directed by Ren Qingtai , starring Tan Xinpei. The film was released in China (Qing Dynasty) on December 28, 1905, ending the history of no domestic films in China.