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How Cinema Technology Changed
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The earliest film with recorded sound
Dickson Experimental Sound Film · 1894/95
Dickson plays the violin while two men dance — about 17 seconds of film with live-recorded sound.
Sound is lagging
Did you know?
Picture and sound were only synchronised in 2000, by Walter Murch.
The first feature with synchronised speech
The Jazz Singer · 1927 · Alan Crosland
The Jazz Singer: the first feature with synchronised songs and speech — though only about two minutes of talking.
Did you know?
The whole film has only about two minutes of synchronised talking. The rest is songs and intertitles.
The first full three-strip Technicolor feature
Becky Sharp · 1935 · Rouben Mamoulian
Becky Sharp: the first feature shot entirely in three-strip Technicolor.
Keep scrolling: red, green and blue strips come together
Did you know?
Before it, three-strip Technicolor had only been used in shorts, such as Disney cartoons.
The first CinemaScope film
The Robe · 1953 · CinemaScope
Fighting television, Hollywood launched CinemaScope. The first film: The Robe.
CinemaScope
Did you know?
An anamorphic lens squeezes the image onto film; the projector stretches it back.
The film that made CGI a revolution
Jurassic Park · 1993 · Steven Spielberg
In Jurassic Park, computer-generated dinosaurs shared the screen with full-size animatronics.
First major studio film shot fully digitally
Star Wars: Episode II · 2002
Star Wars: Episode II — the first major studio feature shot entirely on digital cameras.
Did you know?
It was shot on Sony HDW-F900 cameras at 24p.
Frame rates: 16 → 24 → 48
Silent film · sound film · The Hobbit (2012)
Silent film ran at ~16–18 fps (hand-cranked), sound film at 24. The Hobbit came out at 48 fps — and split audiences.
LED-wall virtual production
StageCraft · The Mandalorian · 2019
The Mandalorian was shot inside walls of LED screens instead of green screen — the background moves with the camera.
AI: a new tool
Generative video · 2020s
In the 2020s AI began generating images and video. What kind of tool it becomes for cinema is still being debated.
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