Топики: Cinematograph

Топики: Cinematograph

CINEMA

Cinematograph is one of the wonders of the modern world. We can not

imagine our everyday life without TV. Every day, every single evening most of

people watching TV. You can watch whatever you’d like: news, show, films or

anything else. There are so many different channels: news, discovery, sport,

music, fashion and others. We know a lot of different films and shows, but not

everyone knows about history of cinematograph. So, I’d like to tell you about

it.

Los Angeles is the world capital of filmed entertainment. First it was a little

city with orange trees and great weather. One day in 1908 a group of people

from Chicago came to Los Angeles to make a film. Since that day a lot o f

actors, producers, directors and lots of other workers have been coming here.

In 1911 the first studio appeared in Hollywood. About 80% of the

world’s films were made in a Hollywood in the 1920s. There are many

corporations and film companies like:

MGM-(Metro Goldwyn Mayer)-one of the most powerful Hollywood studious of

the 1930s-1950s, it produced such prestige films as David Copperfield and The

Wizard of Oz. Among its stars were Greta Garbo, James Stewart, and Elizabeth

Taylor.

Paramount is a film production and distribution company, founded in 1912.

A major studio from the silent days of the cinema.

20th Century Fox a US film-production company, formed in 1935.

It is steel a major studio.

Columbia Pictures a US film production and distribution company founded

in 1924. It grew out of a smaller company founded in 1920 by Harry Cohn;

Columbia became a major studio by the 1940s.

Warner Bros a US film production company, founded in 1923 by Harry,

Albert, Sam and Jack Warner.

Universal a US studio founded in 1915. In the 1970’s and 1980’s Universal

became one of the industry’s leaders with box-office hits from the producer and

director Steven Spielberg such as ET and Black to the Future.

The first genres of American films were melodrama; western and

comedy, later appeared adventure and historical films. At

that time films were silent and black-and-white. Later films became sound and

colorful.

Earlier in Paris in 1895 the Lumiere brothers gave the world's first

real cinema show to an audience of thirty-three spectators. The first film they

showed was "The Arrival of a train at a Station". Moving pictures seemed so

real that the audience was frightened to death by the train rushing at them

from the screen. The spreading in cinematography in Russia started with the

demonstration of the Lumiere brothers’ film in May 1896 in St. Petersburg and

Moscow and later in Nizhniy Novgorod. The first sound films simultaneously

appeared in three countries, the USSR, USA, and Germany at the end of the

1920’s. In October 1929 the first sound cinema house started its work.

As for me I like action films, comedies, and melodrama. I like comedies best

because it’s extremely funny and a good way to relax. I like to watch

melodrama because it’s realistic, truly to life. Action films are very

dynamic and exciting.

My favorite film actor is Gerard Depardieu one of the most popular actor. He

was born in 1948 in a poor family of a shoemaker in a little town. When he

was 16 he came to Paris without any education and without any money. Together

with his friend he began to attend the actor courses. He got acquainted with

a girl of a wealthy family and soon they got married. She had a great

influence upon him. He finished the actor courses. When he was only 20 he

played big roles in the theatres. His great success in films is a consequence

of his good theatrical school. But his success in the USA was not long. In

1991 during his interview to the magazine "Time" he told that he was a

hooligan when he was a teenager. The American audience doesn't excuse such

fact in his biography. The works of Depardieu in cinema are marked by many

cinema rewards in France and in Italy. Everybody notes that glory and money

don't spoil him. They only made him independent. He played in about 80 films.

Not long ago millions of people used to visit cinema each week. Cinema houses

were often packed full and one could see people queuing up in front of the

box offices. Now with the price of tickets far from reasonable the growth of

video production and the flood thrillers empty of serious content the cinemas

rapidly losing its popularity. Cinematograph is truly an art of our time.

It's as complicated and multi-facet as the twentieth century itself. Everyone

can find something to his liking in the broad variety of its genres. Those

who seek pure entertainment and rest to the mind prefer musical comedies,

detective films, thrillers, horror films and westerns. Other people consider

that movies should be rather a thought provoking and earnest art than all

fun. Personally I am for entertaining both the heart and mind at the same

time.

Ekaterina Kraynyaya.