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This 20 page paper discusses the development of the Russian cinema from its inception to the present, modern era. Key filmmakers mentioned and chronicled. Bibliography lists 18 sources.
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development of cinema as we know it, came from Europe. Most are familiar with the contributions of the French and German film industries. However, it might interest those scholars of
film to know that amongst those early contributors were surely the Russians. Their innovations in the film industry, specifically in filming techniques, served to add dimension and girth to the
already developing industry. EARLY RUSSIAN CINEMA: Most of Europe formally credits Auguste and Louis Lumiere as the chief proponents of the commercialization of the cinema in the late eighteen hundreds.
They patented their cinematograph during that same year and set off to gain recognition and support for their invention. The first short film that they produced was "La Sortie" which
was a French film (ostensibly because they were French, after all). One year later their tour would take them into Russia. Its advent would be marked in the blood of
the Russian people. Of course, this time it was not a revolution, but a celebration which marked this bloodletting. Tsar Nicholas II was due to be crowned and as
such great festivities were planned for the coronation. Part of the incentive for the crowds to turn out was that the government bribed them by offering them free food, drink
and entertainment for the evening. The entertainment was the cinematograph. Unfortunately, they severely misjudged the turn out for such an occasion and given the cinematographs limited viewing many of the
people in the crowd were trampled(Boym 1992). Thus, Russias first viewing of a film was marked by death. Tolstoy would later write about the ceremony where he stated in no
uncertain terms that it was "terrible in its absurdity and insane waste of money: the dreadful misfortune of the deaths of thousands of people resulted from the authorities impudence and
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