From big things little things grow..

Week 4 lecture: we succumbed to a tedious talk about the advancements of cinema from the big screen to the small screen. Heres what I absorbed with squeegee to drip into my blog..

Cinema was born into this world on December 28 of 1895 in ye' old Paris, France with a screening of ten short films in commercial exhibition to a paying public. Thank you to the Lumieres and the Paris boulevard.

The first permanent cinema building followed suit in Paris (1987), advancing from a cafe to a theatre.

Then god bless America, Edwin S. Porter became the father of narrative film with his work 'The Great Train Robbery' in 1903.

A few quick dates to skim across in my attempted timeline flow in order from - the first full length feature film in 1906, the serials or episodic film installments in 1912, Charlie Chaplin's rise to fame as the very first 'star' in 1914, Expressionism and a notably bizarre take to film in the 20s, SOUND in 1921 and Technicolor dreams in 1923. Continuing in the early 90s was the birth of the silent film and feature length movies coherent with dialogue, the oscars, first full-length animated feature - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, TV, and film noir.

Then the year 1960 unleashed a Psycho, yes Alfred Hitchcock'd psychological horror, thriller, savage film.

The videocassette recorder (VCR) was introduced in 1969 and the really big screen, the IMAX came into being in 1970 under the Fuji Pavilion in Japan. (Say Fuji! Dumb camera add that has now become iconic in the taking of a picture. Stupid Japs).

A few more events continuing towards the late 90s are the blockbuster, HBO (Home Box Office) which helped along a domino effect towards cable TV and satellite networks, MTV, computer-generated-animation, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Pulp Fiction and DVDs.

Talking about our generation and dripping into the symphonies of the now, we can see how film has greatly altered from the big screen to the small..

2002 - brought about movies on demand, 2005 - Blu-Ray Disc as having a higher capacity for performance to meet the expectations of future demands, 2006 - YouTube and 2007 - Jackass as the first broadband movie ever distributed.

Apparently we are in the year 2009 and expect to see the likes of vibrating, moving, leaning, shaking chairs to heighten the impact of 'the cinema experience'. I take it we are passed the stage of seats with cloud-like comfort? and going to be billed $5 surcharge to sit in a bloody moving seat!

There we have my synopsis to week fours lecture. The Star Wars clip, yeah that kept me tuned in...