History of

Cinema
What were early films look like?
Who invented the first cinema?
No person invented cinema but,

Edison company successfully

demonstrated of prototype of
Kinestoscope.
Kinetoscope
Lumiere Brothers (December 1895)

- Paying audience
Lumiere Brothers (December 1895)

- Paying audience

- “Workers leaving the

Lumiere Factory (1895)”
A colourised still of the Train
Entering the Gare de Ciotat
Station.

» August (1862-1954) & Louis

(1864-1948) Lumiere

Playing petanque (1895)

Pioneering Age

1896-1912
Slideshow to
Artform
 Pioneering Age

Early motion pictures were static shots showing an event or action

with no editing or other cinematic techniques as this series showing
a nude walking demonstrates.
The Silent Age

1913 - 1927

The emergence of
Hollywood
World War I and the
exodus from
Europe
The Silent Age

Adding colour

British
Kinemacolor
- Used only for
documentary films
Changing process of cinema
The Hollywood Studio Stage
1932-1946

Domination by the
Studio
Genre movies
World War II
In 1946, over 31 million visits each week
World War II
Studios became propaganda machines
for the War Effort.
Films patriotic and focused on concerns
of those on the home-front as they
worried over those on the battle field
as the stills from “Freedom Comes
High” (1943) shows
The Internationalist Age
1947-1959

Hollywood Studio
declined
The challenge of TV
 The New Wave Age
1960-1980

From France to the world

Technological innovation
Small scale productions
Strong social / political
value to film.
 Moving images demonstrated in 1860s

Zeotropes Praxinoscopes Kinescopes

Cinema of the
1990s
Marilou Diaz-Abaya
• multi-awarded film director from the
Philippines.
• She meticulously produced films for
over twenty years and was part of the
Second Golden Age of Philippine
Cinema.
• Feminist director
• Social and political film for social
reform
Laurice Guillen
- worked as an actress before
crossing over to film and
television work.
• It was on television that she
became a household name when
she joined the cast of "Flor de
Luna" in 1978 as Jo Alicante.
Lorenzo "Lore" Reyes

• is a Filipino director, writer and

producer, a product of the
Philippine Science High School
and the University of the
Philippines, Diliman.
extensive experience in
teaching acting and in line
producing, and production
budgeting and scheduling
for film, television and
theatre.
-He is a founding member
of the Directors Guild of
the Philippines, Inc.
Cinema of the
2000s
Jose Javier Reyes
• is a Filipino writer, director,
miscellaneous crew and actor. He has
won awards at the Gawad Urian,
Metro Manila Film Festival and
Filipino Star Awards for Movies for
his films, which include Pahiram Ng
Isang Umaga, Batang PX and
Kasal, kasali, kasalo.
Chito S. Roño
• also known as Sixto Kayko, is a Filipino
writer, film producer and film director
known for his expansive vision and special-
effects-heavy films, most notably Yamashita:
The Tiger's Treasure (2001) for which he
won the Metro Manila Film Festival for best
director.
• He is also known for his 1997 film Nasaan
ang Puso which earned him his first MMFF
for best director.
Mark Meily
• Meily took up Visual
Communications at the
University of the Philippines
before studying film at
Mowelfund in Manila and in
Paris as a French Government
Scholar for cinema.
• Meily directed Crying
Ladies, his first feature film.
- won six (6) awards at the
2003 Metro Manila Film
Festival including Best
Picture and Best Director. -
The film also received
several nominations from
different award-giving
bodies in Philippines.
Erik Matti
• His most notable
achievement in film is Magic
Temple, which won top
honors for Best Screenplay
(shared with Peque Gallaga
and Lore Reyes) during the
1996 Metro Manila Film
Festival.
 Wenn Deramas
• Deramas worked as a waiter at the Aristocrat Restaurant
and was promoted as food and beverages coordinator
after two years. In 1990, he worked as a production
assistant for the TV show Tatak Pilipino. He also
worked as a writer for the show Teysi ng Tahanan and
was promoted as the executive producer of Calvento
Files. Since then, Deramas had been directing different
soap operas such as Mula sa Puso (original and remake)
and films including the Ang Tanging Ina series and
several blockbuster movies of comedian Vice Ganda.
Group Activity
• Create a slide presentation about the works (2 each) of
the following directors:
Group 1 – Abaya, Guillen, Lore Reyes
Group 2 – JJ Reyes, Roño, Meily
Group 3 – Lamangan, Matti, Deramas
• Choose one movie that you would like to do a remake in
the future.