Week 4 tute task - not tutespark - this is the tute exercise.

Video or 'film' has not always worked online.
Answer the following in your blog:-

1.Where and when did usable online video start? (provide some refs. and an example if possible)

2.In the lecture we heard about technological innovations that were used by the studios to lure audiences. (mostly to combat the popularity of TV)
What recent innovations are being used to lure us in the movies?
What are they luring us from?

3.Are short films still being made? Why? Who pays for them to be made?

4.The term viral is thrown about adhoc but what does it mean in film/movie arena? Give some examples.

5. Online video distribution isn't limited to the short film format. We are now starting to see television styled shows made solely for internet release (webisodes). Find an example of this style of content and discuss how viewing television content in this way can positively and negatively affect the viewer's experience.


1895 –Cinema in France
1906 – Full length feature film “The story of the Kelly Gang” – Charles Tait, Australia.
1927 – End of silent era, birth of the talkies.
1933 – Drive in movie theatre in New Jersey.
1939 – First TV sets available to American Public.
1952 – Hollywood counter attacked TV with 3D films.
1955 – Movie studios sold their libraries to TV
1959 – William Castle put motors under chairs to vibrate at scary parts, and Charles Weiss filtered aromas through the air-conditioning system.
1963 – a $30,000 tape recorder available to consumers.
1963 – The first multiplex in Kansas, The Parkway Twin.
1967 – Sony introduced own VTR, black and white “Portapak”.
1969 – Sony introduced VCR.
1967 – IMAX in Osaka, Japan.
1972 – Cable TV by HBO ( Home Box Office)
1978 – The video laser disc.
1981 – MTV launched in July.
1982 – Film with a video arcade game, Walt Disney's Tron.
1983 – Dragon's Lair arcade game.
1985 – The first Blockbuster Video store in Texas.
1985 – Blood Cults is first film designed especially for video.
1986 – Pixar's Luxo, Jr. was first fully computer animated short.
1988 - “Who Framed Roger Rabbit”, blending of imagery and live action human characters.
1991 – First naturally moving computer generated character in Terminator 2: Judgement Day.
1995 – Toy Story, the first feature length animated film.
1997 – DVDs (digital versatile disc)
1998 – HDTV
1998 – Netflix offered video downloading to subscribers
1998 – The last Broadcast was first film to be sent via satellite to cinema theatres.
1999 – The most profitable film, Blair Witch Project, with $30,000 budget and $249 million
gross profit.
1999 – TiVo
2001 – Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, first photo-realistic computer generated film.
2001 – 8 short films for BMW were produced for the internet.
2002 – MovieLink established by the major Hollywood studios.
2004 – Able Edwards produced without any physical sets but entirely with a green backdrop.
2005 – Films released on Blu-Ray Disc, the first being Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle.
2005 – Hollywood ceased releasing films on VHS.
2006 – YouTube.
2007 – Jackass 2.5 initially released on broadband for viewers.