Week 4 (Lecture)

In the lecture for the fourth week of new communication technologies, we analysed a time-line of the development of screen and cinema. It spanned from the beginning in 1895 to 2010.

So in order to provide a brief yet accurate account of the time-line, here is a list of the development of screen and cinema:

1895 - The Birth of Cinema.
1897 - The First Permanent Movie Theatres.
1903 - The First Narrative Film.
1905 - The Nickelodeons.
1906 - 1st Full Length Feature Film.
1909 - The Movie Palaces.
1912 - The Serials.
1913 - The Birth of the 'Studio System'.
1914 - The First Movie Star.
1919 - An Industry on the Rise.
1920 - Expressionism.
1921 - Sound.
1922 - Montage.
1923 - Animation, Hollywood (Land) and Technicolour Dreams.
1925 - The Mile High Club.
1927 - Birth of the Talkies.
1929 - First 100% colour, Talking, Singing, Dancing Picture and The Oscars.
1933 - Automobile Movie Theatre.
1937 - Snow White.
1939 - TV and The Greatest Year in Film History.
1941 - Film Noir.
1945 - Everybody was Kung-Fu Fighting!
1952 - 3D.
1953 - The B-Movie.
1955 - Movies on the TV.
1956 - Video Killed the Radio Star.
1958 - Cinema Verite.
1959 - Shocking, but True and Something's a bit Fishy.
1960 - Psycho! (The Movie).
1963 - The Multiplex and Video Killed the Radio Star Pt 2.
1966 - Star Trekkin'.
1967 - The One and Only.
1968 - Faces.
1969 - The One and Only Pt 2.
1970 - A disastrous Beginning and The Really Big Screen.
1971 - Proud to be Black and The Blockbuster.
1972 - PrOn.
1978 - Halloween (The Movie) and Lasers.
1980 - HBO.
1981 - I Want My MTV.
1982 - Film and Video Arcade Game.
1983 - Dragon's Lair.
1985 - The Home Blockbuster.
1986 - Computer-Generated-Animation.
1988 - Live-Action and Animation.
1991 - All you base are belong to us.
1993 - El Mariachi.
1994 - Pulp Fiction (The Movie).
1995 - Toy Story.
1997 - DVD's and Troops.
1998 - HDTV, The Last Broadcast and VOD.
1999 - The most profitable film in Hollywood history and TiVo.
2000 - Asian Action and The Naughties.
2001 - Inspired by the game and The Hire.
2002 - Movies on Demand.
2004 - What Backlot?
2005 - DVD killed the video star, feeling Blu and Inspired by the movie, by the game?!
2006 - YouTube.
2007 - Broadband Release.
2010 - Vibrators (seats).

Fascinating stuff...