Unit 13.

Audiences were able to enjoy the first long films.. The cinema really became an industry.. When did the history of cinema begin?In the early 19 th century.. Did the cinema develop rapidl

Let’s see!

Match a film in A with a kind of film in B

1 TITANIC

2 Mr Bean

3 TOM & JERRY

a A CARTOON

b A LOVE STORY

c A COMEDY

**** 1 Films were about five or

ten minutes long.

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2 Audiences were able to enjoy the first long films.

3 The cinema really became an industry.

4 Sound was introduced.

1905

1910s

1915

1920s

1 When did the history of cinema begin?

In the early 19 th century.

2 Did the cinema develop rapidly in the first two decades of its existence?

Yes, it did.

3 Did films in the early days have sound?

No, they didn’t.

4 When were audiences able to see long films?

In the early 1910s.

5 When was sound introduced?

At the end of the 1920s.

A The Story of a Film Maker

C The History of the Film Industry

B A Brief History of Cinema

The history of the cinema (1) in the early 19th

century By (2) , films were about five or ten minutes long In the early 1910s, (3)

were able to enjoy the first long films but it was not

until (4) that the cinema really became an

industry The (5) changed completely at the

end of the 1920s This was when sound (6) introduced

began 1905

audiences

1915

cinema

was

Write a short passage about the history of the cinema

(about 80 words).