Knowing cinema history allows you to understand why things happen the way they do today.
Have you ever wondered why we shoot movies the way we do? Or why storytelling is done the way we see it in every modern movie?
Well, the roots of the art are in old Hollywood. Like, really old Hollywood. Actually, before Hollywood even began. Back when people were using the first cameras ever invented. One of the first movies ever made was The Great Train Robbery. It’s a 1903 American silent Western film made by Edwin S. Porter for the Edison Manufacturing Company.
This movie was made before the title of “director” ever existed, so Porter is credited as “supervising” the motion picture. After making the movie, the Edison company did something no one else had ever done before…
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Author: Jason Hellerman
This article comes from No Film School and can be read on the original site.
