History of movies

A movie is a story that is told through the acting of people with moving pictures.It is made by a video recorder and the whole acting is recorded down and shown to others to tell others the story.

It started off when English photographer, Eadweard Muybridge, took a series of photo from 24 cameras on a galloping horse. soon after, the technology was expanded and a motion picture camera was developed for the taking of motion pictures.


Soon after, many film makers started to produce their own film with the new technology and this gained popularity. However, the films were silent and only had black and white colours.

in the 1920s, new technology allowed them to synchronize the element of sound into the film and it was called talking pictures when it came out.

After the start of 1960s natural colours were implemented and slowly as technology improve, the more vivid the video and the sound quality was. and with that, more and more animations as well as special effects were implemented and animations in the current years are human-like.


slowly but surely, movies have come a long way and now, added with more features with the help of technology, movie experience are now enchanced in a way no one knew it would in the start of motion pictures.

Done by : Wilson

Inception

Movie name: Inception
Date of Showing in Singapore: 15 July 2010
Company: Warner Bros. Pictures
Genre: Action | Mystery | Thriller | Sci-Fi
Director: Christopher Nolan
Rated: PG-13
Total run time: 148 minutes
Our Rating: 9.5

In a world whereby technology exists to enter a person's mind through dream invasion, a skilled thief named Dom Cobb(Leonardo DiCaprio) who invades others dream to get the information he needs was accused on murdering his own wife. He was then forced to leave his children and parents. He was offered a chance at redemption. One last job could give him his life back but only if he can accomplish the impossible inception. Which is to plant an idea into others mind.


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Reviews given by: Dominic

Movie piracy, links and video streaming

There are alot of video streaming websites and torrents that let people access any video content easily, how does all these affect the movie industry? Copyrighted videos are illegal to be published online, if a website offers full length copyrighted video streaming, it is clearly illegal in this case. However it becomes blurred when only a minor part of the copyrighted content is published, it is still piracy since the content is copyrighted, however it could be justified as a small video to enhance review or analysis.

What about links to video streaming websites or torrents, are they illegal? If so one could argue the that search engines such as Google is the most illegal website that provides links to illegal content. Until all these is clear, piracy would probably never stop. My view on this is to restrain from posting any questionable links or content unless you are fully clear on the laws of all that's involved.



K.C Yong