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a dark room where strangers agree to cry at the same lie
means a building or industry devoted to showing films to an audience, and by extension the art of motion pictures itself
from Shortened from the French cinématographe, the projector-camera patented by the Lumière brothers in the 1890s. They built it from Greek roots: kinema, 'movement' (from kinein, 'to move'), plus -graphe, 'writing' — so literally 'movement-writing.' The full word soon contracted in both French and English to cinéma/cinema, and the same kinema also lives on in 'kinetic' and 'kinesis.'
- first screening
- 1895 train footage sent audiences fleeing seats
- frame rate
- 24 still images per second tricks the brain
- silent era
- live orchestras scored films before sound existed
- longest film
- one runs over 35 days nonstop
- popcorn pact
- theaters earn more on snacks than tickets
godfather trilogy — francis ford coppola's 1972-1990 films that revolutionized organized crime storytelling
citizen kane — orson welles' 1941 film widely considered the greatest movie ever made
tokyo story — yasujiro ozu's 1953 masterpiece about a family reunion in postwar japan
soviet montage movement — 1920s russian filmmakers like eisenstein who invented editing techniques