THE CINEMA

THE CINEMA

December 1895

The first to present the cinema as moving images projected to a paid audience (that is, cinema) were the Lumière brothers in December 1895 in Paris. At first, the movies were very short, sometimes only a few minutes or less. The first presentation was on December 28, 1895, in Paris, and consisted of a series of documentary images, of which the workers of a factory (owned by Lumière themselves), and that of a train (at La station Ciotat) who seemed to attack the spectators, before these images people reacted with an instinctive fear, believing that the train would run them over.

Charles Pathé: Taking as reference the cinematographer of the Lumière brothers, as well as Edison's cinetoscope, he made a video camera with which he made his productions. His experiments consisted of the desire to combine the phonograph with the cinematograph, but the results were of poor quality, so he was unsuccessful. Then, Pathé will be linked in the business field of cinema, so he separates himself from the artistic and creative aspects, and takes care of salaried employees such as Ferdinand Zecca. Pathé Frères would be the first company to integrate the three main branches into which the film industry is divided: production, distribution and exhibition.

 Ferdinand Zecca: it became a Pathé company with a diverse cinematographic activity as an actor, screenwriter, director and decorator. Zecca deals with fantasy cinema, although it presents a realistic trend, its cinematographic language becomes agile, its cinematographic planes are not general planes, but it begins to control closer cinematographic planes. In 1913, Zecca left film production to incorporate administrative and commercial services and construction management of the Pathé studios in Berlin and Jersey City. 

Brighton School: group of photographers who use camcorders to experiment. Discover the fragmentation of the story and some time later discover the fragmentation of the movie scene, which is what is called the "assembly principle".

 Also discover the variety in the views in the same action. They are the first to film a chase in three shots (fruit thief). His productions become more commercial. And Importance of cinema is understood today in a dual way: on the one hand, it is understood as one of the most important arts of humanity, and on the other, it is also seen (especially American cinema) as the basal stone of one. of the largest industries around the world.