Cinema

In 1895 Louis Lumiere and his brother where the first people to project a moving picture to an audience. You can say that this was the birth of cinema. Although, lumiere was not the first to project film. The Edison Company successfully demonstrated the Kinetoscope in 1891. This enabled one person at a time to view moving pictures. Later in 1896 an improved projector was invented by Edison it was called the vitascope projector. This projector was the first commercially successful projector in the U.S.

The Cinema shows films and this process of projecting a film is considered to be an important art form. As well as an art form, it is a source of popular entertainment and a powerful method for educating citizens. People go to the cinema for several reasons, to socialise, new films, low expense or just for pure escapism.

Elements of cinema and its visual components give motion pictures a universal power to communicate. Films have become popular worldwide, using processes such as dubbing; subtitles allow films to be translated for other speaking countries; distributed world wide.

From the first motion picture in 1895, cinema has developed greatly. The introduction of television saw the rise of 3D at the cinema. 3D cinema offered something that you couldn't experience at your own home. This introduction of 3D cinema was very successful, for around three years. However, technology began to move and audiences moved on to other cinema advances. These advances included the triple screen Cinerama and later Cinema Scope, IMAX, THX and others.