Georges Méliès
Georges Méliès was a french illusionist and film maker famous for inventing the use of special effects and was one of the first film makers to use time-lapse photography, hard colour (by painting every frame at once), dissolves and multiple exposures. Due to a variety of factors, roughly only about 200 of his films out of over 500, are extant.In these earliest films, Méliès began to experiment with (and often invent) special effects that were unique to filmmaking. This began, according to Méliès' memoirs, by accident when his camera jammed in the middle of a take and "a Madeleine-Bastille bus changed into a hearse and women changed into men. The substitution trick, called the stop trick, had been discovered." He first used these effects in The Vanishing Lady, in which the by then cliché magic trick of a person vanishing from the stage by means of a trap door is enhanced by the person turning into a skeleton until finally reappearing on the stage.
D. W.Griffith
D.W.Griffith was an American film director, mostly remembered as the director of the 1915 film The Birth of a Nation. The Birth of a Nation is considered important by film historians as one of the first feature length American films (most previous films had been less than one hour long), and it changed the industry's standard in a way still influential today.
Lumière brothers
The Lumiere brothers were french who were the inventors of Cinematography in 1895. They shot a film called 'Sortie de l'usine Lumiere de Lyon' which is considered to be the first true motion picture. During processes in the 1890s they worked on numerous colour photography including using the Lippmann process.
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