iBilib: The first movie ever made!

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Aired (February 9, 2025): A curious eight-year-old from Las Piñas City wants to know: What were the first movies made? So let’s step back in time and discover how cinema began!   Watch 'iBilib' Sundays at 9:35 AM on GMA Network, hosted by Chris Tiu and Shaira Diaz.   For more iBilib Highlights, click the link below:  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLYaldfT7P2Teh_NQfZBAjzvRkaF0KZuw

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00:00Our iBelievers always want to learn.

00:03That's right.

00:04Like Francesca Clare Peñalosa. She's only 8 years old.

00:07From Las Piñas City.

00:08Hey! How are you? Hello!

00:10And this is her question of the day.

00:12How did the movies start?

00:16Francesca Clare, you're going to love the movie Making Magic.

00:19Lights, camera, action!

00:23If you want to see a cactus, you don't have to go to the desert.

00:27There are a lot of cacti sold in garden stores.

00:30It's like a movie.

00:32You don't have to go to the movies because streaming is popular.

00:36It wasn't like this before.

00:38Film technology has changed a lot since its inception in the late 1800s.

00:44Have you ever thought about how movies started?

00:47Not a single person invented it.

00:50It's the result of the persistence of different people, machines, and technology over a long period of time.

00:56Even though cameras and pictures were not invented yet,

00:59there are old movies, like the early 1830s,

01:03where toys with a series of drawings were popular.

01:07They were rotated by a disc in a Phenakistoscope.

01:11When the disc moves, the drawings also move.

01:15The perceived motion of still images is the magic behind the movies

01:19with the help of two natural phenomenon.

01:22The first is the persistence of vision.

01:25When we see something and it disappears,

01:28an image is left in our mind.

01:31When the speed of a series of images is correct,

01:34we can see their movement continuously.

01:37That's the movie magic.

01:39Aside from this, there are five phenomenon

01:41where the images seem to move when shown in a fast and proper way,

01:46like a film strip passed through a projector.

01:49This optical illusion of movement is the essence of movies.

01:55Many agree that the first feature-length narrative film

01:59is The Story of the Kelly Gang from Australia in 1906.

02:03It was followed by Birth of a Nation in 1915.

02:07In 1927 is The Jazz Singer,

02:10the first movie with synchronized sound.

02:14And in 1939, the cheaper three-color technicolor process was invented

02:19which was used in the first movies in color,

02:22like The Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind.

02:25It is considered as the Golden Age of Hollywood in the 1930s and 40s.

02:29It was the best movie production in America

02:32while Europe was destroyed during World War II.

02:35Movies became the main type of entertainment.

02:38Many people watch movies twice a week.

02:41Back then, if you didn't watch the movie in the cinema,

02:44it's probably your last chance.

02:46Good thing now, team replay is allowed.

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