cinema

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(place) by Thomas Miconi (4.6 y) (print) ? I like it! Sat Nov 13 1999 at 10:15:26

The art of making movies, or the place where these movies are shown. AKA the 7th art (well, at least outside of the USA). The technical process we use today was invented by the Lumiere Brothers c. 1894, although Thomas Edison had a prototype for a kind of "individual cinema" in the same years. Is still rather popular today, under different forms, from Hollywood blockbusters to European intimate movies - although the former is quickly eating up the latter.

(idea) by Seraph (7.2 y) (print) ? I like it! Sat Dec 09 2000 at 18:05:44

Thomas Edison took too much credit for creating the cinema. He originally was only interested in the cinema for a visual accompaniment for his very popular phonograph. His assistant Laurie Dickson was actually the one who developed the first working camera and was seen on the first "film" (which is him sneezing). The Lumiere Brothers shoed their first film in 1895 which is largely celebrated as the first film ever shown. The cinema, like everything else was invented by a series of steps, most of the people not knowing what they were contributing too. Inventions like the zoetrope, the chriniphotographic gun, the kinetiscope all led to the "invention" on cinema. Cinema is also often used as a term to denote better, or higher brow films. For example one would say "Breathless" is cinema, but "Ernest scared stupid" is not.

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