WEEK 4's LECTURE.

• Nobody had ever seen moving images up until the 1800's.
• The first films went for 20 minutes or shorter and were just recordings of everyday activities.
• They would take the same film from place to place and charge people to view the film, they would make a lot of money from doing this.
• The first feature length film was made by Australians about "Edward 'Ned' Kelly and the Kelly Gang" then the UK, Europe and United States followed.
• It took an extremely long time to make films and the cost to make one was horrendous.
• Nickelodeons were the first place to show a feature length film and got the name from charging people a nickel to see it, this was first created in America.
• Title cards were used in the films because their was nothing to project sounds from, a person would change the cue cards when needed.
• Blockbuster films were shown in multiple theaters.
• In 1939 the first television was created and shown in New York, they didn't think that 'TV' would effect the amount of people to visit movie theaters due to the high price of 'TV's.
• Their was a huge number of drop off in the amount of people going to see films due to the invention of the 'TV'.
• In 1996 youtube was first created and was a huge hit.
• Videos were difficult to view online due to the slow internet speed and the video was the size of a postage stamp and extremely pixelated.
• Album sales have dramatically fallen due to consumers downloading their songs from the internet.

I have embeded the two videos we were shown during the lecture below: