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History of cinema
The Lumière brothers.
The history of cinema as spectacle began in Paris on December 28, 1895. Has since undergone a series of changes in several ways. On theone hand, the technology of the cinema has evolved greatly from the early silent films of the Lumière brothers, until the twenty-first century digital cinema. On the other hand, has evolved the languageof film, including the conventions of the genre, creating film genres. Thirdly, it has evolved with society, thus resulting in different film movements and national cinemas.
Technical and socialcauses that led to the birth of cinema
The emergence of new sources of energy and mineral application of electricity to industrial uses.
The consolidation of towns: emergence of a mass audience.Hollywood y el Star System
Hollywood and the Star System
In the U.S., the film was a resounding success, a peculiar social circumstances: being a country of immigrants, many of whom did not speakEnglish, both theater and the press and the books were closed to them by the language barrier, and so silent movies became a very important source of entertainment for them ..
silent pictures

Stillfrom film Intolerance, David Wark Griffith.
Often speak of silent film of the silent era or move, and this is not entirely accurate but it is true that the projections could not themselves but showmoving images without sound. But in the halls projections were accompanied by the music played by a pianist or small orchestra and further annotated by the voice of an explainer, essential figure thatmade ​​it possible for illiterate immigrants crowds unfamiliar language or understand the film.
The creation of film language

Battleship Potemkin, Sergei Eisenstein of.
In those years, the artof telling a story in pictures suffered a great evolution. The first conceived the film as filmmakers filmed theater.

Distribution of Films
Being the only film media of the time, and being well...