Tuesday, 17 September 2013

Dates in the development of the film trailer

Significant dates in the development of the trailer

Trailer
The Pleasure Seekers , opening at the Winter Garden Theatre on Broadway 1913 - again linked to muscial theatre.
Silent film - rise of the star 'Charlie Chaplin'
National Screen Service (1920s-80s)
1960s - introduction of montage, quick editing - directors influenced by short film
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Release of 3D Trailer

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History of 3D
1844David Brewster introduces the Stereoscope, a device for taking stereo photographs.
1851A 3D photo of Queen Victoria is displayed at The Great Exhibition.
1855The Kinematoscope (Stereo Animation Camera) is invented.
1915The first anaglyphic movie is produced.
1922The first anaglyphic movie is shown in theatres (The Power of Love).
1935The first color 3D movie is produced.
1947The first Russian 3D movie, Robinson Crusoe, is produced.
1952Touted as the world's first feature-length 3D movie, Bwana Devil is released in the USA and heralds a short-lived boom in 3D movie production.
1953Two ground-breaking 3D movies are released: Man in the Dark and House of Wax. The latter is the first 3D movie released with stereo sound, and is directed by AndrĂ© De Toth—who has only one eye.
1953The 3-D Follies becomes the first 3D film to be cancelled during production, signalling the end of the 3D boom.
1960September Storm is the first anaglyphic movie released in the Cinemascope format (although technically it's just an expanded non-anamorphic film).
1981Comin at Ya! is released in anaglyphic format using the "over and under" process (where two views are printted on a single frame, one above the other). This film launches the 3D boom of the 1980s that includes Amityville 3-D, Friday the 13th Part III and Jaws 3-D.
2009James Cameron's film Avatar, shot with the Fusion Camera System he helped develop, is hailed as the best 3D film to date and helps push 3D towards the mainstream.
2010The world's first dedicated 3D television channel, South Korea's SKY 3D, launches with side-by-side 1920x1080i resolution.
2010The Consumer Electronics Show features prototype 3D televisions from most major manufacturers.

1 comment:

  1. Lucy, you need to get down to serious research into existing texts in order to complete this work. Look at classic horror films and their trailers in order to establish the key tropes, memes and iconography of the genre. Remember Wilde said: 'talent borrows, genius steals.'

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