Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Film + TV + Cinema

The history
There were a lot of inventions and innovations of necessary for the advent of cinema in history. It was electromagnetic induction and also Edison's bulb in 1879. The film was invented by Lumiere brothers in 1895. Their first film was a short gag, which called Sprinkle sprinklers (Pokropený kropič). First it was black and white and silent. There were usually comedies and cartoons (kreslený). The first film with a real plot (děj) was a western The Great Train Robbery, which was 10 minutes long. The first real cinema building was founded in Paris in 1897. The most important actors were Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Today we can see colour and sound film. It depends on TV set but almost everybody has a colour TV. The most important television studio is found in Los Angeles in USA. It's called Hollywood and to get there is a dream of all actors.