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The first motion picture in human history was filmed almost 148 years ago to the date by a famous photographer and convicted killer named Eadweard Muybridge on June 19th, 1878 , in Palo Alto, California.
It featured a jockey riding a horse — as viewers of Jordan Peele’s modern horror film Nope will recall — part of an effort by his client Leland Stanford of Stanford University to settle the intense debate at the time over whether horses naturally galloped with all four hooves leaving the ground, or whether they always had at least one hoof down (the former is true). Ever since then, there have, to date, been five great technological revolutions in the medium of filmmaking (by my count).
> Silent Film Era (1878-1929)
Sound/Talkies Era (1927-early 1950s)
Color Film Era (1930s-1960s)
Camcorders/Home Video Era (late 1970s-1990s)
Internet and Mobile Device Era (late 1990s-present)
Each one of these revolutions ushered in entire new eras of film creation and consumption, unlocking new possibilities for the kinds of stories that could be told and increasing their realism and speed of creation, but arguably more importantly — they greatly expanded the accessibility of film creation and consumption to a much wider swath of the world’s people. VB Transform 2024 Registration is Open Join enterprise leaders in San Francisco from July 9 to 11 for our flagship AI event. Connect with peers, explore the opportunities and challenges of Generative AI, and learn how to integrate AI applications into your industry. Register Now I am starting to think, based on the public release of the new, free Luma AI Dream Machine model this week — which turns a user’s raw text and still images into fluid videos in seconds, rivaling or exceeding the realism and quality of OpenAI’s unreleased Sora — that we are now at the cusp of the sixth great revolution in filmmaking: AI. The origin of movies: turning static […]
AI is the sixth great revolution in filmmaking (and maybe the most important)
