Origin of Cinema

 

Cinema appeared with the Lumiere brothers, based on an invention of Thomas Alva Edison, the Kinetoscope, they used this apparatus for making a machine that collected instant movement by taking a lot of photos in a short time. The first camera they made wasn’t able to reproduce the images it took. The first “film” that was played for a group of people was a bunch of workers coming out of a factory, and after that one, which wasn’t really famous was a train coming into a station, this film shocked the people that watched it, so it get really known and some people started building machines similar to Lumiere brother’s one.

 

But as an interesting fact, the actual first film in the world was done by Le Prince, it was 1.66 seconds long, with 50 photograms, and it was a woman walking in a garden, was a really small piece of cinema, but is the first image in movement that we know about, it was called “The scene in Rondhay’s garden”, in 1988 2 years before Thomas Alva Edison sent a prototype of a cinematograph, and seven years before the “first movie” ever, by the Lumiere brothers.

 

The first movie created by the Lumiere brother was a number of workers coming out from a factory, as I told you before, it was protected on a cinema called Indian Salon in the Great Cafe. Not many people went, only the people that saw the posters around the city and the people that were personally invited by the Lumiere brothers, and the witnesses say that the people there were completely surprised.

What is Cinema for me?

I consider cinema as my favourite hobby, when I don’t find anything to do I try to watch a film or a series, I consider a TV series as cinema, I think that it has the same effort doing it as a movie, and in many cases more. Most of the people think that cinema is only the movies that are shown in a big screen with a lot of people, and you have to pay for it, I consider it as art.

I have to say that nowadays we are really lucky, ten years, even five years ago, if you wanted to watch a movie or series you had to go to the cinema or wait every week for a new episode, but now with Netflix and all the other Internet places where you can find the movie or the episode you wanted to watch and you lost, is much easier to love cinema.

I remember when I was a kid going every weekend to the city centre of my village to a mobile

cinema, because the mayor organised a projector and you only had to pay 2 euros. My friends and I expend all the evening watching films, sometimes even five in a row. We loved those Saturdays enjoying cinema, even knowing that most of the films were really old, but that gave us a bit of culture and a way to expend our holidays, there was a point that we started watching the same films all the time, because there isn’t a huge display of movies on my town hall. When the school started again this mobile cinema disappeared, so I remember spending the entire evening in an old computer downloading films and copy them in Cd's, for after that watching them.

This are the main reasons why I love cinema, and everything it includes. 

Introduction

Hi my name is Isaac Robledo, I'm a Spanish student who is studying in Ireland, I love cinema, TV, and everything related to a camera. Feel free to give your opinion.