1922 |
Robert Flaherty directs Nanook of the North , which portrays intimate details of Inuit life. |
1924 |
Fernand Leger makes Le ballet mechanique his landmark avant-garde film in which he experiments with camera-created motion and rhythm. |
Anna Pavlova is filmed dancing her solos, including The dying swan , on the set of Douglas Fairbanks's The thief of Bagdad. |
Rene Clair makes Entr'acte , a dadaist film, to be shown during the intermission of the ballet Relache by Picabia. |
1927 |
John L. Baird demonstrates the first video system. |
1928 |
Diaghilev uses film projections in Leonide Massine's ballet Ode. |
Sergei M. Eisenstein makes a rapid montage of three soldiers dancing in three different styles in his film October. |
1928 |
First scheduled television broadcasts by WGY, Schenectady, NY. www.tvhistory.tv |
First color motion pictures exhibited by George Eastman in Rochester, NY. |
1929 |
All-dancing, all-singing revue films begin to appear. |
Rouben Mamoulian directs Applause , which contains very fluid, rhythmic motion by the standards of early sound film. |
Mary Wigman's Hexetanz is filmed in Germany. |