Who was the first person to associate film with art?

Georges Méliès was the first person to associate film with art.

Georges Méliès was the first American film to become an art, and Georges Méliès was the first person to use this tool as a means of personal expression. First, he took the film to a new channel, opened the boundaries of the film and focused on the potential performance of the film. When Mei movies were introduced to the United States, American movies were just pictures of news events and were ridiculed as "Fujian dramas".

All his innovations are revolutionary. Georges Méliès, a visionary, resourceful and stunted man, is the first great artist of this film and the father of the drama tradition of this film. Mei Li Ai found the magic in focus plane, so he moved the camera away from real life, from simple reporting to fantasy, to real creation.

He also used his own system of "manually arranging scenes" to bring the concept of organization into film production, thus changing the accidental improvisation method of Americans and popularizing their technology.

1896, 34-year-old Mei Li Ai is a know-it-all person-he is a satirist of anti-Brown newspaper, a stage supervisor, an actor, a landscape painter of Houding Theatre and a professional magician. In this year, he switched to film production, and from then on to the outbreak of World War I, he devoted himself to the art of his choice.

He wrote: Film production has put forward so many occupations and needs so many different types of work that it can win such lasting attention. Therefore, I do not hesitate to declare that film is the most attractive and fascinating art among all kinds of arts.

Georges Méliès's contribution

In the famous Dreyfus incident (1899), Georges Méliès directed with meticulous realism, imitated some photos, and made the actors perform in real time in the style of newsreels, making a long play of 15 minutes. Among them, there are big close-ups and shots of actors, and there are also scenes where people are scattered, which creates a precedent for the art of "moving the real thing".

Although May Lea's Monterey Studio is a few years later than Edison's Black Maria, it is larger in scale, more exquisite in design, and has a film studio and factory-style operation.