By Priyanka Mehta
October 09, 2022
Have you seen these films?
Labelled as the first film made with a moving picture camera, the short silent film Roundhay Garden Scene runs a mere 2.11 seconds.
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Roundhay Garden Scene, 1888
Directed by: Louis Le Prince
Before we even knew space travel was a real possibility, the film had a fantastical take on a rocket launch with its unusual length, lavish production values, innovative special effects, and emphasis on storytelling.
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A Trip to the Moon, 1902
Directed by: Georges Méliès
An American silent drama film, The Power of Love is the first 3D feature film worldwide. The film used red and green "anaglyph" 3D glasses.
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The Power of Love, 1922
Directed by: Harry K. Fairall, Nat G. Deverich
The first non-silent or Talkies ever, as well as the first feature-length motion picture, The Jazz Singer uses Warner Brothers' Vitaphone sound-on-disc technology to reproduce the musical score and sporadic episodes of synchronised speech.
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The Jazz Singer, 1927
Directed by: Alan Crosland
During a time when most people didn’t even own a television set, Los Angeles was able to broadcast The Crooked Circle (1932) over their experimental station W6XAO to every television in the city.
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The Crooked Circle, 1932
Directed by: H. Bruce Humberstone
It was a risk to draw an audience based on a full-length animated film. With storyboarding, evolutionary character building, the film became path-breaking.
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Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs, 1937
Directed by: David Hand, Ben Sharpsteen, Larry Morey, Wilfred Jackson, Perce Pearce, William Cottrell
Toy Story is the movie that turned animation from being hand-drawn to digital animation and visual effects with an amazing 3D world with lighting, shading, and textures, and some beautifully created characters including human characters and living toys.
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Toy Story, 1995
Directed by: John Lasseter
The film is a historical drama filmed at the Winter Palace of the Russian State Hermitage Museum using one uninterrupted 96-minute Steadicam shot. There are no edits, no cuts in the film. If there were a mistake 95 minutes into the shot, the entire movie had to be filmed again.
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Russian Ark, 2002
Directed by: Alexander Sokurov
Polar Express is the first film that used 3D motion capture techniques to digitally record the actors' physical performances before "skinning" them with their animated forms.
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Polar Express, 2004
Directed by: Robert Zemeckis
The Lion King worked with numerous animators to bring photorealistic animated filming to reality. The film was shot with a mix of CGI animation and live-action filming techniques.
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The Lion King, 2019
Directed by: Jon Favreau