The History of the Cinema
The History of the Cinema
| 31 July 1956 (USA)
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A humorously semi-factual account of the history of cinema.

Reviews
SnoReptilePlenty Memorable, crazy movie
Pluskylang Great Film overall
Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible
Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.
ccthemovieman-1 Being a movie buff, I thought this might be a fun cartoon, but it wasn't really much. The laughs were few and far between.The "history" begins with cave drawings of some men, and then with their legs moving fast. From there, we go to Fr. Roger Bacon who invents the pinhole camera in the 13th century, only to be banished to hell for his invention. I guess that was supposed to be funny.From there, it's on to France and Lumiere's premiere, and then to Hollywood with westerns as the feature attraction (at least in this cartoon.) The cartoon then takes a cheap shot at censors, followed by talkies, television and its impact in hurting cinema attendance, and then some goofy things about different shapes for TVs and movie screens. Apparently, they were making fun of various widescreen presentations in the theater so decided to exaggerate the point. As I said: this isn't much.