For a long time, man is interested in record moments of his quotidian   life as we can see by the ancient pictures found all over the world. In some of them we can actually see the ancient men trying to give the sense of movement by, for example, making a six feet animal.

Across the time that record attempt has been made through several invention that ended with the cinema birth.

In our days, is undenyable the huge popularity level that cinema has society all over the world. The 'seventh art' became so popular, it became an industry. Then, Cinema tryed to get hard, attempting to please to all kinds of public, which obliated to a rising of new technics, new materials and new genres.

The creation of cinema is a gift of several men, by several civilizations, in diferent levels, that by creating new maners of record and image reproduction created the bases of Cinema.

Cinema's history can be tell in lots of ways, but in this case we bet in an European and american point of view.

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