The first ever film that was shown to an audience was in 1895 in France. The film was called ‘L’Arrivée D’un train en gare de la Ciotat’, and it was about one minute long. This film was not edited. The audience who watched the film were shocked because they have never seen moving images before.
Lois Lumiere was known as the ‘farther of cinema’ because many of the films were shot by him. Auguste (his brother) was the first film star because he was the first person to appear in a film. He also made a major contribution towards the development of the medium. Lumiere saw no future for cinema and he retired in the 1900 to make still photographic equipment.
In 1902, George Meliees made a film called ‘La voyage dasn la lune, (A journey to the moon). Melies was known for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest cinema. The smashing pumpkins used Melies as their inspiration for their award winning music video. The ship that appears at the end of the video is named Melies after his films director.
In 1903, Edwin Stanton Porter directed ‘The Great Train Robbery’. In the film he took the archetypal American Western story, already familiar to audiences from novels and stage melodrama and made it a new visual experience. It was successful because it was assembled into twenty separate shots along with close-ups.
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