The first motion picture film is believed to be Louis Le Prince's Roundhay Garden Scene. This film was recorded in Leeds in England in 1888. It is approximately 2 seconds long and shows some of Louis Le Prince's family members walking around a garden. But how was it filmed?
The first commercially produced film in natural color was A Visit to the Seaside (1908). The eight-minute British short film used the Kinemacolor process to capture a series of shots of the Brighton Southern England seafront.
Raja Harishchandra is a 1913 silent film, directed and produced by Dadasaheb Phalke. It is widely regarded as the first full-length feature film ever made in India, and it premiered on May 3, 1913, at the Coronation Cinema in Mumbai (then Bombay).
1888 – Roundhay Garden Scene, the earliest surviving film by French inventor Louis Le Prince, is shot in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, through a groundbreaking 20 frames per second. Others short films made at the same time were Accordion Player and Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge.
The first movie ever made in history 1896 by "The Lumière brothers"
What is the longest movie ever?
The longest film ever made, according to Guinness World Records, is "The Cure for Insomnia" (1987), directed by John Henry Timmis IV. It lasts 85 hours and is considered an extraordinary achievement in the film industry.
In 1913, Dadasaheb Phalke released Raja Harishchandra (1913) in Bombay, the first film made in India. It was a silent film incorporating Marathi and English intertitles. It was premiered in Coronation cinema in Girgaon. Although some claim Shree Pundalik (1912) of Dadasaheb Torne is the first ever film made in India.
The first Indian actor is widely recognized to be Dadasaheb Phalke, who is often referred to as the "Father of Indian Cinema." He directed and produced India's first full-length feature film, titled "Raja Harishchandra," which was released in 1913.
Rajinikanth's blockbuster film Sivaji: The Boss (2007) was the first Indian movie to incorporate the latest 4K resolution technology that is used only in big-budget Hollywood films. In India, 2K resolution has been the set standard.
As of 2020, Amitabh Bachchan is the most honoured actor with four awards. Kamal Haasan, Mammootty and Ajay Devgn with three awards, while six actors—Mohanlal, Sanjeev Kumar, Om Puri, Naseeruddin Shah, Mithun Chakraborty, and Dhanush—have won the award two times.
If you grew up in the west, it could be easy to think that Bollywood is a sub genre of Hollywood or just a term to describe all Indian cinema, but you'd be wrong. The fact is, Bollywood produces around 1000 films every year, which is almost double the output of Hollywood.
Just a few years after the first filmmakers emerged in the mid-1890s, Mellies created “Le Manoir du Diable,” sometimes known in English as “The Haunted Castle” or “ The House of the Devil,” in 1896, and it is widely believed to be the first horror movie.
Kisan Kanya was a 1937 Hindi Cinecolor feature film which was directed by Moti Gidwani and produced by Ardeshir Irani of Imperial Pictures. It is largely remembered by the Indian public on account of it being India's first indigenously made colour film.
The Jazz Singer, American musical film, released in 1927, that was the first feature-length movie with synchronized dialogue. It marked the ascendancy of “talkies” and the end of the silent-film era.
Around the world released in 1967 and directed by Pachhi was the first Indian film to be released in the 70mm widescreen format, and also the first with a magnetic, six-track stereophonic soundtrack.
Sivaji The Boss (2007) was although shot and edited on analogue film but was digitally scanned to 4K. In 2015, Baahubali became the first Indian movie to be shot and edited natively in 4K followed by Baahubali 2 in 2017. Apart from these, no other Indian mainstream movies have used 4K.
In most cases, movie theaters are no longer using the traditional film format for showing movies. Since the early 2000s, digital projectors have been the industry standard around the world. As movie projection technology advances, older methods such as film slowly become more and more obsolete.
Shah Rukh Khan, also known as the "King of Bollywood," is one of the most popular and influential actors in India. He has been in the film industry for over three decades and has acted in more than 80 Bollywood films.
Margaret Hughes (UK, 1643-1719) appeared as Desdemona in Thomas Killigrews version of Othello, The Moor of Venice on the 3 December 1660, at a converted tennis court called the Vere Street Theatre, London, UK.
The cinema of the United States, often generally referred to as Hollywood, has had a profound effect on cinema across the world since the early 20th century. The United States cinema (Hollywood) is the oldest film industry in the world and also the largest film industry in terms of revenue.
Reportedly, this large screen facility at Prasads Multiplex is equipped with the biggest projection screen in India measuring about 64ft high and 101.6ft wide.
