So now there was a real possibility of having films ofmore than two or three minutes,and this led to themaking of The Great Train Robbery - the very firstmovie made.It only lasted 11 minutes but was anabsolute sensation,and there were cases of peoplewatching the movie and actually fainting when thecharacter fired a gun at the camera!Almostovernight movies became a craze,and by 1905people in America were lining up to see movies in'store theatres',as they were called then.
I guess the next big step in terms of development oftechnology was to have people actually talking on the film,and the first step towards this was in1926 when sound effects were first used on a film.It wasn't until the following year howeverthat the first 'talkie',as they were called then,was made.This film featured actors speaking onlyduring parts of the film and was called The Jazz Singer,and it wasn't until 1928 that the first all-talking film was produced,and this was called The Lights of New York.Unfortunately,the soundon this early film was not very good and I believe they put subtitles on the film - that is,theyprinted the dialogue along the bottom of the film to compensate for this poor soundquality.Now,with the addition of sound,moving pictures became far more difficult to make...