Unit 13. Films and cinema

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
A
B
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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.
When
Events
1905
1910s
1915
1920s
1. When did the history of cinema begin?
In the early 19th 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
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).