started thinking of ways to use it. He constructed a building for making films. It was all based on large pole and could be rotated. The rotation was needed so that light could enter from any angle from the ceiling and windows. The building was called the kinograph theatre. It was later nicknamed The Black Maria, because of the fact that the building was covered in tarpaper. Edison was appointed the first director. His first actor was a man named Fred Ott. He was one of Edison’s employees in his testing labs Ott had a reputation of sneezing very loudly in the testing lab. The first movie that they made was a close up of Mr. Ott sneezing. They called it: Fred Ott’s Sneeze. It was the first motion picture ever recorded on film.For the first 20 years of motion picture history most silent films were short, only a few minutes in length. Before directors considered it a real art, they would just film being crazy, doing fun and ridiculous antics. They would last only a few short minutes. In the early 1910’s the films became more complex and greater in length.One of the first major developments in the motion picture industry was a very natural step to follow. They shot the scenes in an arranged order, or as they will be mentioned hereafter, arranged scenes. Cinderella was one of the first arranged scenes/movies made. It was made in 1899. There were 20 total scenes in the movie, which totaled to be 410 feet of Eastman film. It went through the entire Cinderella fairy tale. From Cinderella cleaning the kitchen, to her triumph in the end. Other young, aspiring filmmakers said the movie “augmented by marvelous tricks, scenic effects, dissolving views, ballets, and marches. In which 35 people participated.”The ability to record sound that was synchronized with the recorded images was discovered in 1929. Few silent films were made after that, with the exception of Charlie Chaplin. Chaplin was the ...
