History and Background of Film

When films were first being all of them were short due to the restraints to the technology at the time. The first films that were being produced, around 1894, were made through Thomas Eddison's kineticscope, which was designed to only allow a single person to view it through  a viewing window at the top. The first films that were being made and shown often lasted less than a minute, being seen almost as a novelty. These films were, at the begining, simple everday things like trains or sport events. The first films never had a narrative, or any sort of continuity. It was not until the 1900s when simple editing techniques, and other techniques, were introduced to be able to call the footage more of a film as is seen today. In this early times there were many important influences on film. One such influnce was the French filmmaker Georges Mellies, who produced some of the first sci fi and horror films and was a pioneer in the use of special effects.
Film continued to quickly develop, becoming longer and more advanced, soon including the use of recorded sound and then colour. This allowed people tomake bigger and more impressive movies than they had before. Editing and cameras also started to become more sophisticated, also improving the quality of the filmmaking. Throughout the times the american film industry has always preformed better than the industries in all other countries, most often making the bigger films that become blockbusters. However, mulitple times, they have suffered from writers strikes, which have allowed other countries like Britain to become a little more successful than they normally had been.