1895 The first film in human history, Factory Gate, premiered.

Today in history-1March 22, 895, the gate of the first film factory in human history ...1895 65438+February 28, the Lumiere brothers in France publicly showed films such as "Factory Gate" and "Train Entering the Station" in a cafe, which was confirmed as the birth date of the film by film history. Even so, "Factory Gate" is the first commercial film, which was officially released on March 22nd. 1895. People who go out through the gate and the small door also form a balance of power in composition. The factory gate shows that the workers leave the factory after work, and then a carriage pulled by two good horses drives the factory owner into the gate.

As photographers, the Lumiere brothers showed a completely different thinking concept from Edison from the beginning. This difference is not only manifested in the invention of "projection" and the improvement of film machinery and equipment, but also in the fundamental differences in time and space concepts and aesthetics of their film works.

As an inventor, Edison made great contributions to movies. His development of film machines and devices laid the foundation for the birth of new art, and his greater glory is to give this new art a charming, poetic and illusory name-film. However, Edison's concept of film and this new art has great limitations.

First of all, most of the films shown in Edison's "Movie Mirror" were shot in a device he set up called "Black Prison Car". In fact, his creation itself did not break away from the original mode of "photo studio". In front of the "peep mirror" that only one person can see, the viewer's "peep" is just repeating the photographer's "peep" again and again. Followed by Dixon's first 50 or so works, such as The Scene of the Bar, Dance of annabella, Tooth Extraction, Barber, Pierre Buffalo, etc. Most of them simply show entertainment scenes such as dancing, boxing, juggling and playing games. The characters in the film are performed by actors invited by Edison for the camera, just like "moving photos". It's just some fictional little programs that apply the model of stage play.

On the contrary, the Lumiere brothers took a more realistic attitude. First of all, they got rid of the shackles of the closed artificial space owned by the photographers in the studio and moved towards the vast and open natural space. The content of the work is also to try harder to express and copy the things and lives that actually exist in real life, rather than to arrange and perform those things and lives that don't actually exist for the camera.

1895, Lumiere brothers Louis and August invented a movie machine that surprised the whole world. This portable device is a combination of camera, film processor and film machine! The two brothers filmed a movie in the French countryside, which can only play for a few minutes at most. Then, they deal with the film on the spot! The following year, the old movie machine (another variant of the mobile movie machine) announced the arrival of a brand-new entertainment era. The working principle of the old movie machine is similar to that of the mobile movie machine, but there is an essential difference: the image is projected on the big screen of the room instead of the small screen of the small room. Since then, the first cinema was born, that is, Nick Cinema in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

After more than a century of long development, movies and movie machines have become more complicated. Engineers use film transmission gears and reels to assemble film machines, which makes it easier for films to move quickly in front of light sources. The length of a movie ranges from a few minutes to an hour or even longer. In the late 1920s, people who often went to the movies could already enjoy movies with sound channels.

1895 65438+On February 28th, the Lumiere brothers in France publicly showed films such as "Factory Gate" and "Train Entering the Station" in a cafe, which was confirmed as the birth date of the film by film history. Even so, the first movie in the world was the scene of Landmark Sea Garden directed by Louis Prince. 1888 10, the French inventor Louis Prince carried out a landmark work in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. He used his single-lens camera and Eastman Kodak's paper film to photograph the scene of Roundhay Garden and the street view of Leeds Bridge. This was several years before his competitors, such as Lumiere brothers and Thomas Edison. He couldn't finish the public demonstration of this new invention in America as planned because he mysteriously disappeared on a train on September 1890. Film historians believe that he was the real founder of early films.

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Factory Gate is the first commercial film, which was officially released on March 22nd. 1895. The camera recorded the off-duty workers walking, cycling and walking outside the door, which was a natural and real scene. Georges sadoul, a famous French film historian, said, "It still makes people feel a simple charm." The gate is slightly to the right, and there is a small door to the left in the middle. Because the light is dark, it is black. The gate and the small gate just form the golden section. People who go out through the gate and the small door also form a balance of power in composition. The factory gate shows that the workers leave the factory after work, and then a carriage pulled by two good horses drives the factory owner into the gate.