Response to lecture week 4.

"From the Very Big Screen to the Very Small".

This lecture was about the development of the cinema/screen technology. We got to learn about how it all started with the birth of the cinema in 1895 in France. It was basicly short films that was showed. The full length feature film was released in 1906, and from this stage it is not far until the full length animated film about Disney`s Snow White was showed in 1937. This is still a classicer. I have hardly ever heard of any one who has never seen Snow White, this is a legendary movie that every generations is introduced to. The picture to the left is a poster from 1937 when the Snow White was released.

After the cinema came the TV in 1939. And this was the biggest competition to the cinema, because now people could watch the films in their own livingroom. So to keep up the competition, the 3D films was released in 1952. As the develpoment has been huge in the cinema/TV world sense the birth of the cinema in 1895, we could still se that the methods invented then is used today, like the 3D movies and for example the short films. It is still very common with short films. Small film producers uses this films in a way of showing their work with going bankrupt.

Today there is plenty of movies to choose from on TV, and the most of us has payed TV, so we could broadcast other channels from around the world. On the internet we have the famous Youtube, where there are thousands of movies viewed daily. Many people uses Youtube to front their work. And people could get popularity around their movie. I have even heard of people that has been offered jobs after posting something on Youtube.

Even though TV and the internet are the cinemas biggest competition along with other things of course, people are still dragged to the cinema. Befor ebig premiers of for example an new movie from Harry Potter, people are sleeping in line to get the best tickets weeks before the film is showed! And the cinemas start making up their own treats to attract people, like her in Australia they have the famous Gold Class where people can relax in comfertable chairs, order food and even a beer! This livingroom feeling makes people wanna go to the cinema. I think it is great that people still uses it, it is a important piece of the world culture and the countries individually.