cinema history

Hello everyone, The technology for true color film and photography was around for some time when the Titanic sank. To clarify, when talking about color, I'm not referring to artificial colorization, but original color. The first widely used system of real color photography, Autochrome Lumière...

Filmmakers have long had an insatiable fascination with the shipwreck: the awesome, towering walls of water, the deafening roar of the wind, the high drama of that inevitable “we’re going under” moment. The onscreen shipwreck promises both visual magnificence and emotional grandeur. It is, in a...

Every film about the Titanic seems to be groundbreaking in some way for cinema. The first feature-length films about the disaster were Saved from the Titanic and In Nacht Und Eis, which were both released a few months after the sinking. The first sound film about the disaster was 1929's...

Would the 1910 silent short 'Frankenstein' be the earliest example of a horror film?

I believe Charlie Chaplin made his cinematic debut in 1914, so was unknown in 1912- and Mr lloyd debuted shortly therafter... Rudolph Valentino debuted after WW1 methinks.... I don't think the Keystone cops (and Fatty Arbuckle and Buster Keaton) debuted until the start of WW1. It seems most...

Before 1914 what were the films that were popular in the Edwardian time.

So was there really a cinema on board? According to this urban legand site where they prove or disprove urban legends its true. The film shown on the night of the sinking was apparently in 2nd class and was about a sinking ship. Claim: When the Titanic hit an iceberg in the north Atlantic...

Hello dear people, I've just found a picture of Olympic's first class lounge/cinema (See the link below). I didn't know Olympic's lounge could be transformated into a cinema. Does anyone have an idea when this was introduced? Could it have been happened in the twenties? members aol...

Blindfold yourselves, Mo and Michael S. There's a new threat to your wallet on the market in the form of a book entitled "The Titanic and Silent Cinema" by Stephen Bottomore. It's printed in England by a company called The Projection Box, and the printing is only 500 copies. The author is a...