VOTD: The Evolution Of Movies From 1878 To 2014 In Just 3 Minutes

/Film reader and Humber College graduate Scott Ewing put together the ultimate epic movie compilation, a chronological look at the evolution of movies, from Eadweard J. Muybridge in 1878 to the upcoming films of 2014. This is what Ewing says about the video montage:

This montage began as a labor of love and quickly became an obsession of mine. Many days and hours were spent researching clips, downloading and editing. The following montage chronicles the evolution of film from its conception in 1878 by Edward J. Muybridge to the Lumiere brothers in 1895. Georges Melies a trip to the moon in 1902 was a total game changer and from there we go to the first theatrical releases starting in 1920-2014 ... this portion of the montage is chronological.

Watch the The Evolution Of Movies In Just 3 Minutes embedded after the jump.

The Evolution Of Movies In Just 3 Minutes

You can watch more of Scott Ewing's videos on his vimeo page. Ewing notes that there are some notable films which are absent from the montage (such as the Great Train Robbery, The Story of the Kelly Gang and Birth of a Nation). He says that the footage was "either impossible to find or did not fit in with the creative direction of the montage." Here is a complete listing of the film clips Ewing used for this video:

1878 – Eadweard J. Muybridge – Pioneer of Motion Photography

1895 – Auguste & Louis Lumière- Sortie des Usines Lumière à Lyon

1902 – A Trip to the Moon – Viaje a la Luna – Le Voyage dans la lune – Georges Méliès

1920 -The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari

1921 – 'The Kid' – Charlie Chaplin

1922 – NOSFERATU

1923 – Harold Lloyd's SAFETY LAST!

1924 – Sherlock Junior

1925 – Gold Rush

1926 – The General

1927 – The Jazz Singer

1928 – Steamboat Bill. Jr

1929 – The Broadway Melody

1930 – All Quiet on the Western Front

1931 – Frankenstein

1932 – Horse Feathers

1933 – Duck Soup

1934 – The Man Who Knew Too Much

1935 – Bride of Frankenstein

1936 – Modern Times

1937 – Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

1938 – The Adventures of Robin Hood

1939 – The Wizard of Oz

1940 – The Great Dictator

1941 – Citizen Kane

1942 – Casablanca

1943 – Phantom of the Opera

1944 – National Velvet

1945 – The Lost Weekend

1946 – The Best Years of Our Lives

1947 – Out of the Past

1948 – The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

1949 – The Third Man

1950 – Cinderella

1951 – A Streetcar Named Desire

1952 – Singing in the Rain

1953 – Roman Holiday

1954 – Seven Samurai

1955 – Rebel Without a Cause

1956 – The Searchers

1957 – The Bridge on the River Kwai

1958 – Vertigo

1959 – North by Northwest

1960 – The Apartment

1961 – West Side Story

1962 – The Man who shot Liberty Valance

1963 – The Great Escape

1964 – Dr. Strangelove or How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

1965 – Thunderball

1966 – The Wild Bunch

1967 – The Graduate

1968 – 2001 A Space Odyssey

1969 – The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

1970 – The Aristocats

1971 – The French Connection

1972 – Deliverance

1973 – The Exorcist

1974 – Chinatown

1975 – Jaws

1976 – Rocky

1977 – Close Encounters of the Third Kind

1978 – Superman

1979 – Apocalypse Now

1980 – Airplane

1981 – Raiders of the Lost Arc

1982 – E.T: The Extra Terrestrial

1983 – The Right Stuff

1984 – The Karate Kid

1985 – The Goonies

1986 – Top Gun

1987 – The Princess Bride

1988 – Who Framed Roger Rabbit

1989 – Hoosiers

1990 – Misery

1991 – The Silence of the Lambs

1992 – Reservoir Dogs

1993 – Jurassic Park

1994 – Speed

1995 – Apollo 13

1996 – Mission Impossible

1997 – The Fifth Element

1998 – The Big Lebowski

1999 – The Iron Giant

2000 – Cast Away

2001 – Ameile

2002 – Minority Report

2003 – Kill Bill

2004 – The Incredibles

2005 – Batman Begins

2006 – Children of Men

2007 – No Country For Old Men

2008 – Tropic Thunder

2009 – 500 Days of Summer

2010 – The Social Network

2011 – The Artist

2012 – Skyfall

2013 – Gravity

2014

The Amazing Spiderman 2

How to Train Your Dragon 2

Neighbors

Edge of Tomorrow

Transcendence

Captain America – The Winter Soldier

X-Men: Days of Future Past

22 Jump Street

Godzilla

The Lego Movie

Bad Words

Intersteller

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Guardians of the Galaxy

The Maze Runner

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Muppets Most Wanted

Transformers – Age of Extinction

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