Directors

The Lumiere brothers

The Lumiere brothers have the title of the first film makers in history. There first film was Sortie des Usines Lumière à Lyon (Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory) and was a 50 second film of workers leaving the factory this filmed used one camera and one shot because editing was not around at this time. The two claimed that "the cinema is an invention without any future".

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Georges Méliès

Georges Méliès was famous for his narrative and technical developments in cinema. He was one of the first filmmakers to use time lapse, dissolves and hand painted colour Méliès was also an early pioneer of horror cinema, which can be traced back to his Le Manoir du diable (1896).

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D W Griffith

D W Griffith is famous for his movie ‘Birth of a Nation’ and ‘Intolerance’. Griffith's film ‘Birth of a Nation’ made use of advanced camera and narrative techniques, and its popularity made feature length films popular in the U.S.

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Sergei Eisenstein

Sergei Eisenstein was famous for being the ‘Father of Montage’ his most famous film was ‘Battleship Potemkin’ which he was hired to do by the Russian government as a propaganda film. People in the outside world praised the movies. However, in the Soviet Union, Eisenstein's focus on structural issues such as camera angles, crowd movements and montage, was not liked by the much of the Soviet movie community.

Jean Luc Goddard

Jean Luc-Goddard directed such films like breathless or New wave. Godard did not like mainstream French cinema's "Tradition of Quality", which "emphasized craft over innovation, privileged established directors over new directors, and preferred the great works of the past to experimentation. To challenge he and other critics started to make their own films. Many of Godard's films challenge the conventions of traditional Hollywood in addition to French cinema. He is often considered the most radical French filmmaker of the 1960s and 1970s.