The History of the Cinema

1956 ""

The History of the Cinema

6.7 | en | Animation

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

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Released: July. 31,1956 | Released Producted By: Halas and Batchelor Cartoon Films , Country: United Kingdom Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:

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

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Cast

Maurice Denham

Director

John Halas

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Halas and Batchelor Cartoon Films ,

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Cast

Maurice Denham

as Narrator

The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship Behaving Badly Tears in the Rain 84 Charing Cross Road The Agatha Christie Hour My Son, My Son Schalcken the Painter Shout at the Devil Porridge

Reviews

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.