History of Film Quiz

The history of film can be traced back to 1895, when the first motion pictures were publicly shown.
The development of film technologies began in the late 19th century and led to the creation of a visual art form.
Early films were black and white and consisted of a single shot.
In the early years of film, conventions developed towards a general cinematic language.
Technical improvements such as sound and color were made over time.
Different film genres emerged and enjoyed varying degrees of success.
The use of film as an art form has continued to grow in recent years, with digital production methods becoming more popular.
Shadowgraphy and shadow puppetry represent early examples of the intent to use moving imagery for entertainment and storytelling.
By the 16th century, entertainers often conjured images of ghostly apparitions utilizing techniques such as camera obscura and other forms of projection to enhance their performances.
Around 1790, this practice was developed into a type of multimedia ghost show known as phantasmagoria.
In 1833, scientific study of a stroboscopic illusion in spoked wheels by Joseph Plateau, Michael Faraday and Simon Stampfer led to the invention of the Fantascope, also known as the stroboscopic disk or the phenakistiscope.
Starting in 1878 with the publication of The Horse in Motion cabinet cards, photographer Eadweard Muybridge began making hundreds of chronophotographic studies of the motion of animals and humans in real-time.
In 1887, the German inventor and photographer Ottomar Anschütz started presenting his chronophotographic recordings in motion, using a device he called the kinetoscope.
The first animated cartoon, created by French artist Georges Melies, was released in 1895.
The first animated feature film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, was released in 1937.
In 1891, Lumière introduced the first moving picture projector, which was a peep-box viewing device.
By 1891, he had started mass production of a more economical, coin-operated peep-box viewing device of the same name that was exhibited at international exhibitions and fairs.
Some machines were installed for longer periods, including some at The Crystal Palace in London, and in several U.S. stores.
Shifting the focus of the medium from technical and scientific interest in motion to entertainment for the masses, he recorded wrestlers, dancers, acrobats, and scenes of everyday life.
Though little evidence remains for most of these recordings, some scenes probably depicted staged comical scenes.
Extant records suggest some of his output directly influenced later works by the Edison Company, such as the 1894 film Fred Ott's Sneeze.
From October 1892 to March 1900, inventor Émile Reynaud exhibited his Théâtre Optique ("Optical Theatre") film system at the Musée Grévin in Paris.
Reynaud's device, which projected a series of animated stories such as Pauvre Pierrot and Autour d'une cabine, was displayed to over 500,000 visitors over the course of 12,800 shows.
On 25, 29 and 30 November 1894, Ottomar Anschütz projected moving images from Electrotachyscope discs on a large screen in the darkened Grand Auditorium of a Post Office Building in Berlin.
From 22 February to 30 March 1895, a commercial 1.5-hour program of 40 different scenes was screened for audiences of 300 people at the old Reichstag and received circa 4,000 visitors.
Illustrated songs were a trend that began in 1894 in vaudeville houses and persisted until the late 1930s in film theaters.
Live performance or sound recordings were paired with hand-colored glass slides projected through stereopticons and similar devices. In this way, song narrative was illustrated through a series of slides whose changes were simultaneous with the narrative development.
Later, as the film industry took precedence, illustrated songs were used as filler material preceding films and during reel changes.
In 1894, Thomas Edison's peep-box invention was replaced by the Kinetoscope.
In 1895, with the decline in business caused by public interest, Edison began experimenting with new technologies, such as sound-to-vision synchronization, in an effort to regain public interest.
In 1896, the Cinématographe was released, which was the first commercially successful motion picture projector.
Following the release of the Cinématographe, filmmakers across the world were inspired by the potential of film and began experimenting with new techniques and genres.
In 1897, Lumière released the first feature-length narrative film, La Fée aux Choux.
In the late 1890s, filmmakers began to experiment with post-production techniques, narrative construction, and camera movement. These experiments became influential in establishing an identity for film going forward.