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From the Lumiere brothers to the Cohn brothers, and from Hollywood to Bollywood, from the Oscars to the Cannes Film Festival, the story of cinema is at the heart of the media revolution.
It was more than just a new technology. The first glimpse of a movie astonished people in the early 1890s in the US and Europe, when short clips in Nickelodeon parlors were all the rage. Within a decade, the "movie" industry quickly became the most popular art form of the 20th century -- and the most controversial.
Until the 1890s, theater had always been confined to actors on a stage. Parlor toys like flip books the Zoetrope (US), and the Daedalum (England) were the closet anyone could come to having recorded images that could be played over and over. There was some new media flexibility after Daguerre announced the process for photography in 1839, since lectures and dramatic readings could be illustrated by glass photos projected on a theater screen. But glass was far too bulky and fragile to serve in place of film.
From the Lumiere brothers to the Cohn brothers, and from Hollywood to Bollywood, from the Oscars to the Cannes Film Festival, the story of cinema is at the heart of the media revolution.
It was more than just a new technology. The first glimpse of a movie astonished people in the early 1890s in the US and Europe, when short clips in Nickelodeon parlors were all the rage. Within a decade, the "movie" industry quickly became the most popular art form of the 20th century -- and the most controversial.
Until the 1890s, theater had always been confined to actors on a stage. Parlor toys like flip books the Zoetrope (US), and the Daedalum (England) were the closet anyone could come to having recorded images that could be played over and over. There was some new media flexibility after Daguerre announced the process for photography in 1839, since lectures and dramatic readings could be illustrated by glass photos projected on a theater screen. But glass was far too bulky and fragile to serve in place of film.