Melies and Porter 1900's to 1910's

The film industry in the century began with a quite an upturn as films started to become more mainstream in the public eye of the early 1900's and 1910's as technology and storytelling around the decade has become more straight forward as several companies, directors begin to evolve filming techniques in the 1900's. For instance, in French Magician/Filmmaker George Melies began creating films of his optical illusions back in 1896 when he made an animatography projector and reversed its functions so that it make the illusion of an object disappear or appear from sight by stopping the camera and adding something when the camera was rolling again. The illusion of him disappearing and reappearing became a phenomenal hit with his target audiences as several other producers in United States and England imitate this gag in the late 1800's to the 1900's. George Melies antics would become the status quo into what would be done up until 1902, for George produced a revolutionary film "Le Voyage das la lune" or "A Trip to the Moon" adapted from reference sources. The movie was roughly 14 minutes and unlike other films of the time it had a narrative to go with its film about several guys reaching to the moon and possibly seeing what was space. "A Trip to the Moon" isn't focused on plot as it once the first films to have a plot it rather show interesting and insane worlds rather than give a complete story. In fact George Melies was credited to the creation of fiction genre in film as no else presented anything at unique or strange as George Melies "A Trip to the Moon" and became a success that eventually ended the Lumiere Brothers control over cinema. Despite George Melies accomplishments he would eventually fall from grace by the 1910's as he lost popularity from the film industry changing from directors utilizing more suitable techniques. One of those directors was Edwin S. Porter a projectionist who worked for the Edison Company in 1900 and began making one-shot films, multinarrative scenes, and trick films in the early ninety hundreds. Most films as the time were like these except for "A Trip to the Moon" and many films suffered from the lack of spatial continuity and each shot was like its own movie and barely featured anything to keep audiences invested as the novelty of film seemed to disappearing as it started to become more mainstream. Edwin S. Porter didn't take a glance at what was happening with the industry and instead focused on what he wanted to create as he had practice on films by The Edison Company whether it being editing or pirating films like George Melies or creating one shot films for Edison and use his abilities and knowledge on filming to create his own. The revolutionary film he made would known as the "The Great Train Robbery" a 11 to 12 minute film of a train being robbed from thieves and them being rounded up after the attack. "The Great Train Robbery" was a major hit with film audiences as had narrative, action, and thrills at least to what became before it and established several new genres within film as this innovation started several trends in film. For one the films began to shrink in terms of length of a reel however, "The Great Train Robbery" started many first in films and began to change the film industry for the better as it introduced ideas and practices to audiences everywhere. This was only the beginning of what film could as Melies and Porter would be out of the public eye as they failed to keep up with times of telling linear narratives by the 1910's and instead a group of new directors and companies began to set foot into the film industry.