It was on this date in 1902 that the very first movie theatre opened in the U.S. It was (appropriately) in Los Angeles—in a tent! It was called the Electric Theatre and admission was about 10 cents!
My, what a long, long way we’ve come in a little over a hundred years! From “Kinetoscopes” developed by people like Thomas Edison—to the digital creation and transmission that we enjoy today! Short films of less than a minute were shown before vaudeville acts. From there a system of renting the films came into existence and was the precursor for the way it’s done today.
Can you IMAGINE what it would be like to yank a turn-of-the-century citizen into an IMAX theatre—or any other—to witness the films we have today? Aside from the content onscreen-cars, computers and machines of all sorts that didn’t exist back then—to the incredible special effects that most of us take for granted!
View this movie trailer for the new Transformers sequel and try to put yourself in 1902 shoes watching this very clip! Think of how you would react if you saw this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmgbbGJW6ZE
I, for one, appreciate the enormity of putting such a production together, for even a couple of seconds of action on the screen could take weeks or MONTHS of work or programming to accomplish. Although I disapprove of the real destruction that occurs to make movies, the computer-generated effects now mean that a lot less material is actually wasted in the making of today’s thrillers!
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Lights, camera, ACTION!
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