History of film  

From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

L'arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat (The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station is an 1895 French short black-and-white silent documentary film directed and produced by Auguste and Louis Lumière. It was first screened on December 28 1895 in Paris, France, and was shown to a paying audience January 6 1896.

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Motion pictures developed gradually from a carnival novelty to one of the most important tools of communication, entertainment, artistic expression and mass media in the 20th century. Although as a medium its importance has been eroded by television, video games and internet, motion picture films have had a substantial impact on the arts, technology, and politics, and it can be argued that it is still the people's favorite way of consuming fiction.

A major event in the recent history of film history was the arrival of home video.

Bibliography

• Immoral Tales: European Sex & Horror Movies 1956-1984
• Le Surréalisme au cinéma by Ado Kyrou
• Film as a Subversive Art by Amos Vogel
• Midnight Movies (1983)
• Incredibly Strange Films (1986)
• Cult Movie Stars
• 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (2004)
• The Haunted Screen (1952) by Lotte Eisner

See: Film books