Movies

ORIGINS

First, let's start by defining the word “movie”, a movie is a series of still images that, when projected on a screen in consecutive succession, in rapid succession, creates the optical illusion of moving images.

The term is normally used as a synonym for cinematographic work, that is, a story (fictional or documentary), recorded on a medium (flexible film or digital container) that is recorded and read by means of a continuous or intermittent mechanism of a succession of images. 

The films were originally recorded on plastic film through a photochemical process and then shown through a film projector on a large screen. Contemporary films are now often completely digital throughout the entire production, distribution, and exhibition process.

FIRST FILMS

The first films were simply a static shot showing an event or action without editing or other cinematic techniques. At the end of the 20th century, movies began to group various scenes together to tell a story. The scenes were later divided into multiple shots photographed from different angles and distances. Other techniques, such as camera shake, were developed as effective ways of telling a story with a movie.

EVOLUTION

From its invention to digital cinema, ways to improve films have always been sought. Thus, according to their chronological appearances, the formats that have appeared are classified as:

• 35mm Film: It was created by George Eastman in 1889 to be used with the Thomas Edison Kinetoscope and was quickly standardized for professional use, which is maintained today.
  
  
• Super 35mm: Also known as Techniscope. It was created in 1983 by John Alcott under the name Superscope 235. The format did not use anamorphic lenses and eliminated the reserved space on the soundtrack.
  
  
• 16mm Film: Thanks to Kodak, the term "home movies" had been introduced since 1923, so the company introduced this cheaper format as an alternative to 35mm film.
  
  
• Super 16mm: It was a variation of the previous one. It used a strip of perforations on one side of the film, thus giving extra space in the frame, with a ratio of 1.67.
  
  
• 8mm Film: Released by Eastman in 1932. It was intended to be even more affordable and affordable, using the 16mm tape itself, but only half. In this way it was filmed, on the one hand, the tape was rotated, and it was recorded on the other.
  
  
• Super 8mm: Intended to increase frame size and image quality from the previous one, it was released by Eastman in 1965.
  
  
• Double Super 8: Also released by Kodak, they were 16mm wide reels with Super 8 side perforations. They could come in a cartridge, intended for home and family use, or on a reel, for semi-professional recordings.
  
  
• Single 8: Made by Fuji Photo Film in 1965, they were films that instead of using a 16mm wide reel, used 8mm. The main difference with the Super 8 was the way to encase the film: while in the Super 8 it worked from two coils placed next to each other, in the Single 8 it was placed one on top of the other.
  
  
• 9.5 mm film: It was devised by Pathé in 1922 to project films domestically, although cameras were soon manufactured to use them for filming. It was the main competition of the 8 mm format.

CINEMA INDUSTRY

It had its origin when the Lumiere brothers saw the success of the film, so they began to tour the continent to show the first films privately to royalty and publicly to the masses. In each country, they would normally add new local scenes to their catalog; however, it was at the hands of the French illusionist Georges Méliés that the story of a film was introduced, giving a new approach to the recordings.

His first fifteen-minute film was "The Dreyfus Affair" (1899). After this, many others of great success among the public such as "Cinderella" (1900), or the notable and well-known "Journey to the Moon" (1902).

In the major powers of the western world in the film industry, this sector is dominated by American companies. Even before the First World War, an industrial fabric could be created from production to market launch. On the other hand, the European market is divided into many countries and languages, in addition to being shaken by the two world wars. Producer and distribution companies are much smaller in size and often subsist with the help of state subsidies.

And its evolution continues even being one of the largest industries, where each country has its small or large participation.

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