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The History of the Cinema
by Annalisa and Elisa
The history of film began in the late
1880s with the invention of the first
movie camera. Motion pictures were
initially exhibited as a carnival novelty
and developed to one of the most
important tools of communication and
entertainment and
mass media in the
20th century and
inthe 21st century.
Most fi l ms before
1930 were silent.
Motion picture films
have substantially
a f f e c t e d
arts,technology, and
politics.The movie
theatre
was
considered a cheaper,
simpler way to
p r o v i d e
entertainment to the
masses. Movies
became the most
popular visual art
form of the late
Victorian age. It was
simpler because
before the cinema people would have to
travel long distances to see major dramas
or go to amusement parks. With the
advent of the cinema this changed.
During the first decade of the cinema
existence, inventors worked to improve
the machines for making and showing
films.
The Lumière brothers were born in
Besançon, France, in 1862 and 1864, and
moved to Lyon in 1870, where both
attended La Martiniere, the largest
technical school in Lyon. Their father,
Claude-Antoine Lumière (1840–1911),
ran a photographic firm and both brothers
worked for him: Louis as a physicist and
Auguste as a manager. Louis had made
some improvements to the stillphotograph process, the most notable
being the dry-plate
process, which was a
major step towards
moving images. It was
not until their father
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