Week 4: Lecture Summary

Hi there bloggers,
acoverdale here giving you the inside scoop on NCT 09. I must say after looking at the two uploads of lecture notes to learning at griffith i am just going to post what i have handwritten in my notebook!

The Big Screen to the Small Screen:
1895 was the birth of cinema, the moving image. Fast forward to 1906, the first feature length narrative film of Ned Kelly was made. cFast forward again to 1927, which saw dialogue recorded and played alongside the action - "talkies". Two years later the first all colour film 'on with the show' was produced. 1933 was the year of the first drive in theatre!! In 1937 Disney released an animated Snow White film which was the first commercially released movie with colour and sound. Then, in 1939 Television was introduced at the New York Trade Fair. 1952 saw 3D technology emerge. And in 1955 Hollywood sold back catologues of movies to television (they were old pre released films of course - AND they didnt realise at the time but Hollywood should have sold them to cable first to make more money). The next year Ampex made the first two inch reel of tape used to record movies on (VTR). In 1959, Percepto Vision was invented which sent a mild electric shock to one chair in the cinema (called a nickolodeon because it was a nickle to enter) with the hope that that person would scream and so would others around them.

Then came 1963, the year both my parents were born and the year of the first consumer VTR. Also in this big year multiplex cinemas (with two cinema screens) and blockbuster movies (which screened more than one film at a time were invented - box office results skyrocketed). In 1967 Sony introduced VCR and portapack which allowed independant film makers the chance to work freelance. In 1970 Imax was invented and screens became smaller, towards the TV we have today. 1972 brought Pay TV to America. In 1985 the first blockbuster videoshop opened. Then in 1986 a CGI fully animated short film by Pixar called LUXO JR was released. Fast forward to 1995 when Toystory, the second CGI film from Pixar was made. Then in 1997 DVD was invented (no more video tapes!) Then... THE INTERNET (do doo doooo - piano doom sound). The internet and Hollywood did not connect very well - movies began appearing without license or permission. In 2002, Internet films, BMW short films like the driver which we watched and i like very much, and TROOPS (a take off of Starwars and Cops both of which i have not seen so did not understand very well.. but i did like the backdrop effects of the desert)

til next week,
XOXO
acoverdale