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Rise and Fall of Cinema

Patented: History of Inventions

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The Origins of Cinema

You had to bloody queue to get in. Oh I never saw Greece. No. Remember we queued around the block at the ABC in Newcastle? Because that's what happened here in cinema in Ozda. The standard one would be because of continuous showing. You could turn up whenever so you could come in the middle of a film and you'd sit there in themiddle of it. That's kind of what I imagined cinema starting. Prior to that you're dependent on things like Magic Lanterns where somebody's there in front of a screen telling you a story. And occasionally the image there is the image takes you through the story but they don't move they don't connect terribly much.

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