The History of the Cinema

July. 31,1956

Rating：

6.7

Genre：

Animation Comedy History

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Trailer Synopsis Cast

A humorously semi-factual account of the history of cinema.

Maurice Denham as Narrator

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Reviews

Phonearl

1956/07/31

Good start, but then it gets ruined

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Lidia Draper

1956/08/01

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

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Blake Rivera

1956/08/02

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

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Matho

1956/08/03

The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

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ccthemovieman-1

1956/08/04

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.

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