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Development of Cinema from 1890-1930

In the late nineteenth century there were many ways for the general public to see far off lands, exotic animals and things of that nature, but the only problem was it was rare that anyone would get a chance to see these objects live and in action. There were lantern slide which could provide a person with the chance to see some of these places or things, but the slides only showed a static picture. On the other hand there were events such as circuses and traveling performance groups which also were another way to witness some out of the ordinary spectacles first hand but these performances were few and far between due to the cost of travel. So like many other forms of entertainment at that time many things were only made available to the higher class and working class and middle class people were forced to stay within their folk culture.

Enter the invention of cinema. Cinema was to be the solution to all these for mentioned problems with entertainment of the nineteenth cen...

Posted by: Alexander Bartfield

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