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Cinema History
Cinema history encompasses the evolution of motion pictures from the invention of moving-image technology in the late 19th century to the modern global film industry.
Beginning with pioneers such as the Lumière brothers, Georges Méliès and Thomas Edison, cinema rapidly developed from short silent films into one of the world’s most influential art forms. Landmark movements including German Expressionism, Italian Neorealism, the French New Wave, New Hollywood and contemporary international cinema have continually reshaped storytelling, filmmaking techniques and visual language.
Alongside technological innovations such as synchronised sound, colour film, widescreen formats, computer-generated imagery and digital filmmaking, cinema has reflected and influenced cultural, political and social change for more than a century.
The 2010 movie that convinced Keanu Reeves that cinema was dead: “This is going to be the demise”
A seismic shift at the start of the 2000s.
The treasure trove of lost cinema history found buried under a Canadian ice rink
Including films featuring silent movie stars.
The short, pungent, and altogether questionable history of Smell-O-Vision
Got right up moviegoers’ noses.
Andy Warhol, a 32-man police raid, and a watershed moment for X-rated cinema in Britain
Vital support came from an unexpected source.
The first movie genre banned in the United States wasn’t even real cinema
As soon as films were made, they were being censored.
Exploding Cinema: the guerrilla movement that shows movies everywhere except the big screen
The spirit of punk film lives on.
“Beaten to a frazzle”: the West End cinema that laid down the gauntlet to America
A lavishly decorated, newly built theatre.
Dundee’s forgotten history as the definitive cinema capital of the UK
Thousands of film-lovers would stream into venues in the city…
More About Cinema History
Cinema history is the study of the development of filmmaking, film technology, major movements, influential directors and the evolution of movies from the late 19th century to the present day.
The invention of cinema is generally credited to several pioneers, most notably the Lumière brothers, who held one of the first public film screenings in 1895, alongside innovators including Thomas Edison, William Kennedy Laurie Dickson and Georges Méliès.
Among the most influential film movements are German Expressionism, Soviet Montage, Italian Neorealism, the French New Wave, New Hollywood and the various waves of independent and international cinema that have shaped modern filmmaking.