The Cinema
The first moving pictures, developed in the 1890’s, were
different from what we know about cinema today. Because
the sound and pictures were not (1) ______ , in addition (1) ______.
to the smallness of the screens, the kaleidoscope which his
system was called, was only popularized in its (2) ______. (2) ______.
The Frenchmen developed the same principle and succeeded
in exporting their cinematography to Europe, India, Australia
and Japan. But the films were (3) ______. (3) ______.
After that, great advances were made in cinema. In 1903,
with the use of moving cameras, an improvement on the fixed
cameras, The Great Train Robbery, which lasted (4) ______. (4) ______.
minutes, was made. In the following years, films were longer
and the screens became larger and other refinements were introduced.
In the early (5) ______, with the development of effective (5) ______.
sound system, the major problem of sound and picture
(6) ______ was solved. But oddly enough, for a few years, (6) ______.
the cameras had to be fixed again to reduce the (7) ______ (7) ______.
of their mechanism.
The development of colour was the last important change in
cinema. Though early films were generally black and white,
people thought they were (8) ______ In 1922, a (8) ______.
two-colour system was used in the first real colour films.
Because of the unstable quality, the scenes, sometimes
(9) ______, and high cost, it took longer for it to be accepted. (9) ______.
For all the improvements in the techniques of cinema and
the changes in the style of (10) ______, the basics -- moving (10) ______.
pictures, colour and sound -- remain the same.