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1895 – In Paris on December 28, 1895, the Lumière brothers screen ten films at the Salon Indien du Grand Café in Paris making the first commercial public screening ever made, marked traditionally as the birth date of the film. Gaumont Film Company, the oldest ever film studio, was founded by inventor Léon Gaumont.
In contrast to the beginning of the 1950s, when only 5 films were made per year, 111 films were produced in South Korea in 1959. [125] The 1950s was also a 'Golden Age' for Philippine cinema, with the emergence of more artistic and mature films, and significant improvement in cinematic techniques among filmmakers. The studio system produced ...
This is an alphabetical list of film articles (or sections within articles about films). It includes made for television films . See the talk page in A for the method of indexing used.
The production of Agfa brand consumer films ends. 2006 – Dalsa produces a 111 megapixel CCD sensor, the highest resolution at that time. 2008 – Polaroid announces it is discontinuing the production of all instant film products, citing the rise of digital imaging technology. 2009 Kodak announces the discontinuance of Kodachrome film. [25]
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; ... Western (genre) films by year (124 C) 0–9. 1874 films (1 C, 1 P) 1878 films (1 C, 1 P ...
Endorsement letters from leading actors were signed, and radio appearances and printed advertising were made. Movie stars were used to draw a large audience into the political view of the party. By the 1960s, John F. Kennedy was a new, young face for Washington, and his strong friendship with Frank Sinatra exemplified this new era of glamour.
The color boom was aided by the breakup of Technicolor's near-monopoly on the medium. The last stand of black-and-white films made by or released through the major Hollywood studios came in the mid-1960s, after which the use of color film for all productions was effectively mandatory and exceptions were only rarely and grudgingly made.
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