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The Broadway Melody, first ever musical film. Also the first sound film and first musical to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. Happy Days is the first feature film to be shown entirely in widescreen anywhere in the world. It was filmed using the Fox Grandeur 70 mm process. [50] Glorifying the American Girl, the first film with sound to swear.
Star Trek: First Contact (1996) Enemy of the State (1998) Lost in Space (1998) Star Trek: Insurrection (1998) Bicentennial Man (1999) The Matrix (1999) The Thirteenth Floor (1999) Universal Soldier: The Return (1999) Virus (1999) A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) How to Make a Monster (2001) Swordfish (2001) S1M0NE (2002) Star Trek: Nemesis ...
Sony stated at the time that they had no plans to use DVD in their gaming systems, despite being one of the developers of the DVD format and eventually the first company to actually release a DVD-based console. [41] Game consoles such as the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and Xbox 360 use DVDs as their source medium for games and other software ...
The first attempts to record sound to an optical medium occurred around 1900. Prior to the use of recorded sound in film, theatres would have live orchestras present during silent films. The musicians would sit in the pit below the screen and would provide the background noise and set the mood for whatever was occurring in the movie. [15]
However, these DVD recorders can still record analog audio and analog video. Standalone DVD recorders, alongside Blu-ray recorders, have been relatively scarce in the United States due largely to "restrictions on video recording" and piracy concerns. [2] [3] The first DVD recorders appeared on the market in 1999–2000. [4] [5]
1895 – In Paris on December 28, 1895, the Lumière brothers screen ten films at the Salon Indien du Grand Café in Paris making the first commercial public screening ever made, marked traditionally as the birth date of the film. Gaumont Film Company, the oldest ever film studio, was founded by inventor Léon Gaumont.
First movie shot completely on a green screen using digitally scanned images as backgrounds. Olocoons: First CGI-animated series to use Cel-shaded designs and backgrounds mixed with 2-D elements. Shrek 2: First feature film to use global illumination. [45] Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow: First movie with all-CGI backgrounds and live ...
The DVD-Video format was introduced first on November 1, 1996, in Japan; to the United States on March 26, 1997 (test marketed); and mid-to-late 1998 in Europe and Australia. While the DVD was highly successful in the pre-recorded retail market, it failed to displace VHS for in home recording of video content (e.g. broadcast or cable television).