EVOLUTION OF CINEMA

EVOLUTION OF CINEMA 

No one invented cinema. However, in 1891 the Edison Company in the USA successfully demonstrated a prototype of the kinatoscope, which enabled one person at a time to view moving pictures. The first to present projected moving pictures to a paying audience (i.e. cinema) were the lumiére brothers  in December 1895 in Paris.At first, films were very short, sometimes only a few minutes or less. They were shown at fairgrounds and music halls or anywhere a screen could be set up and a room darkened. Subjects included local scenes and activities, views of foreign lands, short comedies and events considered newsworthy.
Special effects became a feature in movies since the late 1890s, popularized by Georges m' fantasy films. Many effects were impossible or impractical to perform in theater plays and thus added more magic to the experience of movies.
In the 1890s, films were seen mostly via temporary storefront spaces and traveling exhibitors or as acts in vaudevuille programs. A film could be under a minute long and would usually present a single scene, authentic or staged, of everyday life, a public event, a sporting event or slapstick. There was little to no cinematic technique, the film was usually black and white and it was without sound.
Within eleven years of motion pictures, the films moved from a novelty show to an established large-scale entertainment industry. Films moved from a single shot, completely made by one person with a few assistants, towards films several minutes long consisting of several shots, which were made by large companies in something like industrial conditions.
By 1900, the first motion pictures that can be considered "films" – emerged, and film-makers began to introduce basic editing techniques and film narrative. 
                                                -AISHWARYA