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Cinema: moving pictures or the industry of making films
Today I’m going to write about cinema. I’m interested in this topic
because watching films can help us understand a great
deal about life and human relationships. Every time we watch a film, we learn
about other worlds and lifestyles and at the same time, we travel about two
hours to other realities. Cinema is important because as a teacher, I can use
films, short films, documentaries, trailers or clips to present topics or
issues so students can discuss or debate.
I will be talking about where cinema came from, secondly who invented it
and finally, I’m going to mention the most important periods of the history of
cinema around the world. Let’s begin with the origins of cinema; moving images have
always been popular. In China, for example, 5,000 years ago, they used
firelight to project images of puppets onto screens and this was called “shadow
plays”.
Cinema became possible by the invention of two French brothers, Louis
and Auguste Lumiere, in 1895. The Lumiere Cinematograph” allowed large
audiences to watch “moving pictures”. They showed several short films and they
were all documentaries. Let’s continue with the periods of the history of
cinema. There are seven important periods; the history begins in the Far East,
with shadow plays. The, The Lumiere brothers in 1895, The Silent Era (1912),
The Talkies (1928), The Golden Age (1932), The TV Revolution (1950) after the
Second World War and currently, the Modern Film Industry.
I’m going to conclude by quoting Auguste Lumiere, who said: “Cinema can
be exploited for a certain time but apart from that, it has no commercial value
at all”. I’d love to hear what Auguste Lumiere would say about making films in
this century, after all the commercial value given to the Modern Film Industry.
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