What do you know about cinema?

The XX century can be called “the century of film making”. Cinema and TV films have become an important part of our life.
• Do you know who made the first film?
• What was it about?
Listen to the information and check if you are right.

These words can be useful
Invent(or)
Motion-picture camera
Arrival
Towards
Ran out

Although the greatest cinema empire is
Hollywood, the inventors of the cinema were the French, not Americans. The Lumiere brothers invented the first film projector and motion-picture camera in 1895 . That year on the 28 th of December they demonstrated the first three minutes film “Arrival of the Train”.
In that film, a train came towards the camera.
People ran out of the cinema, thinking it was a real train.

• What do you know about Hollywood?
• What would you like to know about it?
Write a list of questions which you would like to ask about Hollywood.
• Read the story of Hollywood (Your book
– Ex.2.3, p.178).
Which of your questions does the text help to answer?

These words can be useful
Entertain(ment) genre
To shoot adventure
Director full-length
Actor short
Films: silent
Sound
Black-and-white
Colour
To star

Why is Hollywood called the capital of entertainment?

What are these people famous for?
Charlie Chaplin is an American actor who starred in a number of silent films.
Paramount is a large corporation which consists of several studios