Etienne-Jules Marey is born
The Lumiere Brothers were born
Edwin Porter was born. He soon becomes an early film pioneer with Thomas Edison's film company.
Etienne-Jules Mary perfected the "Photographic gun" which would be the first to capture natural movement precisely.
Charlie Chaplin was born
The Lumiere Brothers showed thier short films at a silent screening. They were the first to film a slapstick and what is considered to be a "Primative documentary"
Luis Brunel was born
Le Voyage Dans la Lune was released by Georges Méliès. is the best-known of the hundreds of films made by Méliès, and the moment in which the spaceship lands in the Moon's eye remains one of the most iconic images in the history of cinema.
The Great Train Robbery by Edwin Porter was released, and it was enormously popular. For several years it toured throughout the United States, and in 1905 it was the premier attraction at the first nickelodeon. Its success firmly established motion pictures as commercial entertainment in the United States
Luis Brunel's debut Un Chien Andalou is screened
The oldest film festival in the world is the Venice Film Festiva in 1932l; the most well-known film festival in the world is the Cannes Film Festival, while Berlin is the largest film festival worldwide based on attendance rates.[2][3] A 2013 study found that there were 3,000 active films festivals worldwide, with active being defined as held an event in the previous 24 months
Ridley Scott is born
Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator was released. It was met with contoversy, but became the second highest grossing film in America.
Eric Rohmer was the last of the post-World War II, French New Wave directors to become established. He edited the influential film journal, Cahiers du cinéma, from 1957 to 1963, while most of his colleagues – among them Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut – were making the transition from film critics to filmmakers and gaining international attention
French New Wave was a blanket term coined by critics for a group of French filmmakers of the late 1950s and 1960s. Some of the most prominent pioneers among the group, including François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Éric Rohmer, Claude Chabrol, and Jacques Rivette, began as critics for the famous film magazine Cahiers du cinéma. Cahiers co-founder and theorist André Bazin was a prominent source of influence for the movement Although never a formally organized movement, the New Wave filmmakers were linked by their self-conscious rejection of the literary period pieces being made in France and written by novelists, along with their spirit of youthful iconoclasm, the desire to shoot more current social issues on location, and their intention of experimenting with the film form. "New Wave" is an example of European art cinema
Godard criticized mainstream French cinema's "Tradition of Quality",which "emphasized craft over innovation, privileged established directors over new directors, and preferred the great works of the past to experimentation."To challenge this tradition, he and like-minded critics started to make their own films.Many of Godard's films challenge the conventions of traditional Hollywood in addition to French cinema. He is often considered the most radical French filmmaker of the 1960s and 1970s. Several of his films express his political views. His films express his knowledge of film history through their references to earlier films. In addition, Godard's films often cite existentialism, as he was an avid reader of existential and Marxist philosophy. His radical approach in film conventions, politics and philosophies made him an influential filmmaker of the French New Wave
In a film career lasting over a quarter of a century, François Truffaut remains an icon of the French film industry, having worked on over 25 films. Truffaut's film The 400 Blows came to be a defining film of the New Wave genre
Claude Chabrol (one of the pioneers of French New Wave) began working with film producer André Génovés and started to make more critically acclaimed films that would later be considered his "Golden Era". Most of these films revolved around themes of bougeois characters and a murder is almost always part of the plot
Aliens was brought out, and was critically and commercially successful. Ridley Scott chose not to direct the other sequels, but directed a prequel Prometheus in 2011
YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005 and owned by Google since late 2006, on which users can upload, view and share videos.[4] The company is based in San Bruno, California, and uses Adobe Flash Video and HTML5 technology to display a wide variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips, and music videos, as well as amateur content such as video blogging, short original videos, and educational videos
Ashvin Kumar became the youngest Indian writer/director with an Academy Award Oscar® nomination, Ashvin is also the first Indian to be nominated at the European Film Academy with his film Little Terrorist which has been part of official selections to over 130 film festivals, winning awards in 25 of them, including the British Academy of Film and Television (BAFTA) LA here
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