The nineteenth century saw a vast proliferation of visual forms of popular culture. The industrial era offered ways of mass-producing lantern slides, books of photographs, and illustrated fiction. The middle and working classes of many countries could visit elaborate dioramas-painted backdrops with three-dimensional figures depicting famous historical events. Circuses, freak shows, amusement parks and music halls provided other forms of inexpensive entertainment. In the United States, numerous dramatic troupes toured, performing in the theatres and opera houses that existed even in small towns.
The cinema was to offer a cheaper, simpler way of providing entertainment to the masses. Filmmakers could record actor‘s performances, which then could be shown to the audiences around the world.
The cinema was invented during the 1890s. It appeared in the wake of the industrial revolution, as did the telephone, phonograph and the automobile. Like them, it was a technological device that became the basis of a large industry. It was also a new form of entertainment and a new artistic medium. During the first decade of cinema‘s existence, inventors worked to improve the machines for making and showing films. Filmmakers also had to explore what sorts of images they could record, and exhibitors had to figure out how to present those images to audiences.
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