The moving film developed rapidly, providing viewers with graphic documentaries, dramas and comedies. This essay will discuss three main stages which can present the development of moving film. The first portion will discuss the first film made by Lumiere brother in 1895s, its science and realistic effect are mentioned as the significant step from the first days of cinema. Georges Melies’s artistic films in the early 1900s will be discussed in the following part by describing the film that could be used to record fictional events and perform staged trickery of special effects. The final part will briefly analyze the hyperbolic inner performance and satiric narrative of Charlie Chaplin’s slapstick cinema in the early 1920s. By discussing all of the three parts, the essay will argue that the development of moving film experience a series of change through different stages.
The first film that Lumiere brothers invented presents the development of technological work in a film culture and industry, but also represents the reality and arrests movement of reality. Firstly, Lumiere brother invented the cinematographe and used it to record the first film, which was the significant step in the development of moving film. The Cinematographe is an instrument which can serves as a film projector and developer of living motion (Cartwright 1998). It work majored on the moving images through scientific demonstration and overcame the limitations and problems of Edison’s kinetograph. It was much smaller and lighter than Kinetograph, and the viewer could experience the films at same time. The showing of approximately ten short films of the first film would be the first public demonstration of Cinematographe, which makes the audience understand that the film can be a good record of the surrounding reality. Secondly, Lumiere brothers’ realism as the significant film form that presents they open up the new area in the development of moving film. Lumiere brothers did not need...