Film as the Most Important Art Form of the Twentieth Century

1221 Words3 Pages

Film as the Most Important Art Form of the Twentieth Century The use of film and its explorations have progressed steadily since the 1800’s and as our title suggests, it has become an important art form and a huge influence on society today. Influencing the way we live, the way we speak, the way we act and more. There isn’t an art form closer to representing ‘reality’; this is why film has such an affect on all of us! The first ‘image of motion’ created was in 1873 when Eadweard Muybridge, an English photographer used a series of cameras placed along a racetrack to capture the movement of a galloping horse. Muybridge then moved a step closer to the existence of film when he invented The Zoopraxiscope projector - a series of rotating glass disks with images painted on each panel. This set the platform for others to enhance his workings and to eventually create the worlds first motion camera in 1884 and the first roll of film a year later, invented by Americans Thomas Eakins and George Eastman and used by Englishman William Friese-Greene who is known in history as the first creator of film after his short production showing a girl rolling her eyes. After moving image was born, inventors and photographers progressed to invent equipment known as The Electro-Tachyscope, The Kinetoscope, The Vitascope and more early forms of the Motion Camera, these adapted until the present day. We have numerous different types of Motion Camera today, each offering a slightly different type of image, depending on what the filmmakers are trying to achieve. As well as just capturing the image, today’s cameras are also able to record sound, add e... ... middle of paper ... ...l art is that it has a much more historic background, we are known to still have paintings dating all the way back to the Fourteenth Century, therefore these can tell us and help us realise what history was like. Though again, film creates a much more accurate image and in the future when people look back at film of our lives today, they will surely find it easier to understand than still art. All art-forms are important in their own ways but film offers so much more information to its viewers and these can be absolutely anyone because it isn’t forcing us to do anything we wouldn’t do anyway. We naturally, live, look and think, this is what is required to watch a film, it is the easiest art-form to inhale so whatever’s being portrayed holds a great importance as a way to educate, inform and inspire society today.

More about Film as the Most Important Art Form of the Twentieth Century

Open Document