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Researched1895 · Industrial Age (1700 – 1900)

Civilization / Humanities & Culture

Cinema

The Lumière brothers' public screening in Paris (December 1895) launches cinema, the first mass medium of moving images.

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Edison's Kinetoscope (1891) and the Lumières' Cinématographe built on roll film and motion photography. Sound films from 1927, colour and later television carried the language of cinema into modern visual culture.

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