History of Film
It seems hard to imagine, particularly in the world of technology that we live in today, but film started just over 100 years ago and there wasn’t even sound at the beginning. Many people have seen clips from those silent films with the characters moving just a little too fast to seem real. The most successful film of the silent film era was … Keep Reading → The Birth of a Nation, by D.W. Griffith. Film historians admire the quality of the production techniques but many people are offended by the racist themes of the movie. In 1927 The Jazz Singer became the first movie to feature dialogue that was synchronized. The era of sound in movies had officially begun. Silent films would soon be a thing of the past. Filmmaking advanced rapidly in the years following the invention of sound. Within a decade or so many of the classic Hollywood films were being made. It wouldn’t be long until The Wizard of Oz and Casablanca would be made. The rest is history.
