Film Innovators 1
Inventor of sprocket holes and roll film
Who is Thomas Edison?
1st film credited with including synchronous sound
One of the 1st films showcased to a large-scale audience
What is The Arrival of a Train?
Film that popularized Technicolor
What is The Wizard of Oz?
Inventors of the cinematographe - the "all in one" camera
Who are the Lumiere Brothers?
Inventor of the zoopraxiscope and filmed animal locomotion
Who is Eadweard Muybridge?
1st widely recognized cartoon with sound
What is Steamboat Willie?
1st [American] feature-length film
What is The Birth of a Nation?
Invented the modern colorization of black and white films
Who is William Markle and Brian Hunt?
Pioneer in special effects (substitution splices, multiple exposers, time-lapse photography, dissolves, etc) and early narrative structure
Who is Georges Melies?
Inventor of the chronophotographic gun
Who is Etienne Jules Marey?
Inventor of the Eidoloscope and the 1st sound on film
Who is Eugene Laust?
Considered one of the 1st "blockbusters"
Earliest color motion picture film creator
Inventor of celluloid film
Who is George Eastman?
Actual inventor of the Kinetoscope
Who is W.K.L. Dickson?
The last major analog sound-on-disc system and the only one which was widely used and commercially successful
What is Vitaphone?
1st film that used camera pan and parallel action to tell a comprehensive [western/crime] story
What is The Great Train Robbery?
1st female director who is a pioneer in color film and special affects
Who is Alice Guy Blache?
Innovator of parallel action, camera pan/tilt, and the close-up in cinematrography
Who is Edwin Porter?
Credited with the 1st moving picture sequence
Who is Louie le Prince?
I hear color! This song-filled and color film from Disney is considered the 1st full feature-length ANIMATED film
What is Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
1st copyrighted film
What is Fred Ott's Sneeze?
Innovator who patented early two-color filming process
Who is William Friese-Greene?
Inventor of the 1st continuously recording camera
Who is Frances Ronalds?