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A PAYING AUDIENCE
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The first public cinema screening shown to a paying
audience was presented by the French brothers Auguste
and Louis Lumière in Paris, France, in December 1895.
They showed 10 short clips they had filmed.
Toshiba DVD player,
1996
LASER TECHNOLOGY
In the mid-1970s, movies moved into the home with the COMMUNICATION
debut of video cassette players. The experience improved
considerably with the first Hollywood studio-release DVDs
in 1997, thanks to higher-quality picture and sound, more
user-friendly menus, and sometimes interactive games. DVD
SEEING IN 3-D
Experiments in 3-D film date
back as far as the late 1890s, but
the earliest 3-D film shown to a
paying audience was The Power of Modern
Love, shown in Los Angeles in 1922. 3-D glasses
This was also the first film to use
anaglyph 3-D glasses that had
lenses of opposite color. 3-D quality MODERN “FILM” CAMERA
improved with the introduction The modern camera no longer uses
of polarized lenses in 1986. The reels of celluloid film; instead, it
popularity of 3-D peaked with the records using digital technology. The
most successful 3-D film, Avatar, “films” are supplied to cinemas as
released in 2009. digital files. The first digital
screening was Star Wars
Episode I: The Phantom
Menace, in 1999.
Genesis digital
movie camera,
first used to
shoot Superman
Lens hood shields the camera Returns, 2006
lens from the glare of the Sun.
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