THE EVOLUTION

OF MODERN
CINEMA
-SYED TALIB HAIDER
BA(JMC) IV M
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Agenda
• History
• Evolution of Cinemas via different eras
• Birth of Cinema
• Sound Era
• Post Classical Era
• Blockbuster Era
• Independent Era
• Summary
• Bibliography
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History
At first, films were very short, sometimes
only a few minutes or less. They were shown
at fairgrounds, music halls, or anywhere a
screen could be set up and a room darkened.
Subjects included local scenes and activities,
views of foreign lands, short comedies and
newsworthy events.
The films were accompanied by lectures,
music and a lot of audience participation.
Although they did not have synchronized
dialogue, they were not ‘silent’ as they are
sometimes described.
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Important dates to
remember
• 1816 - Nicephore Niepce made first photographic
images.
• 1839 - Louis Daguerre created clear, sharp images on
silver copperplate.
• Required 15 minutes exposure time.
• 1841 - Only 3 minutes needed for exposure
• Eadweard Muybridge in 1872 - Set up 12 cameras
along a track, tied strings to the shutters which were
tripped as the horse ran down; this created
movement with photography.
• 1893- Black Maria-Thomas Edison's film production
studio in West Orange, New Jersey- It is widely
referred to as "America's First Movie Studio"

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Early Devices used in
Cinema
• No one person invented cinema.
• However, in 1891 the Edison Company
successfully demonstrated a prototype of
the Kinetoscope, which enabled one person at a
time to view moving pictures.
• The first public Kinetoscope demonstration
took place in 1893.
• By 1894 the Kinetoscope was a commercial
success, with public parlours established around
the world.
• The first to present projected moving pictures to
a paying audience were the Lumière brothers in
December 1895 in Paris, France. 
Evolution of Cinema
in Different Eras

The cinema hasn’t been the

same as it is now. It has been
evolving since its birth. So, I
have divided this evolution
process into different eras.
SILENT • For the first twenty years of motion pictures

ERA-
history most silent pictures were short--only
a few minutes in length.

BIRTH OF
• At first a novelty, and then increasingly an
art form and literary form, silent films
reached greater complexity and length in

CINEMA
the early 1910’s.
 • BIRTH OF NATION

SOME • THE LAST LAUGH

• CITY LIGHTS
MOVIES OF • MODERN TIMES
SILENT ERA • ALL QUITE ON WESTERN FRONT
SOUND ERA

• On october 6th , 1927 there was the premier THE

JAZZ SINGER and with it comes the end of the
silent era.

• During the film the actors AL Jalson showed his

singing talent. In 50s the cimema made a big jump:
It was projected in colures and sound turns in estereo.
SOME OF THE FAMOUS
MOVIES OF SOUND
ERA
• Sound of Music
• The Jazz Singer
• Chhalia
POST CLASSICAL
ERA-1970-1980
• The new hollywood and post-classical
cinema are terms used to describe the
period following the decline of social
system during the 1950s and 1960s and
the end of the production code.

• During the 1970s, the filmmakers

increasingly depicted explicit sexual
content and showed gunfight and battle
scenes that included graphic scenes of
bloody deaths.
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MOVIES FROM
1970-1980
• Do Raha
• The Godfather
• Star Wars
• Johny Mera Naam

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 BLOCKBUSTER
SEQUEL ERA 1980-1990
• During the 1980s, audiences began increasingly
watching movies on their home VCRs. In the
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early of that decade, the movie studios tried
legal actions to ban ownership of VCRs as a
violation of copyrights, which proved
unsuccessful.

• Eventually, the sale and rental of movies on

home video became a significant “second
venue” for exhibition of films, and additional
source of revenue for the movie companies.

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 MOVIES FROM
1980-1990
• Rocky
• Back to the Future
• Die Hard
• Indiana Jones

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INDEPENDENT ERA
1990-PRESENT
• The early 1990s saw the development of
a commercially successful independent
cinema in the United States.
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• Although cinema was increasingly

dominated by special-effects films such
as Terminator Judgment Day (1991) and
Titanic (1997), independent films like
Steven Soderbergh's sex, lies, and
videotape (1989) and Quentin Tarantino's
Reservoir Dogs (1992) had significant
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 2000s

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• The documentary film also rose as a commercial

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genre for perhaps the first time, with the success of
films such as March of the Penguins and Michael
Moore's Bowling for Columbine and Fahrenheit
9/11. A new genre was created with Martin Kunert
and Eric Manes' Voices of Iraq, when 150
inexpensive DV cameras were distributed across
Iraq, transforming ordinary people into
collaborative filmmakers.

• The success of Gladiator lead to a revival of interest in epic cinema. Home theatre
systems became increasingly sophisticated, as did some of the special edition DVDs
designed to be shown on them. The Lord of the Rings trilogy was released on DVD in
both the theatrical version and in a special extended version intended only for
home cinema audiences.
 • Wikipedia
• Science & Media Museum website
BIBLIOGRAP • Slideshare

HY • Britannica
• Imdb
• Google
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