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If you want to tell a story, or tell people about your ideas, a picture can often be better than words.
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Everyone knows the most famous example of moving pictures—the cinema.
The invention of cinema
The cinema was invented at the end of the 19th century. In 1891, Thomas Edison and William Dickson invented the kinetoscope (活动电影机), a machine for looking at moving pictures. To see the pictures, you had to look through a small hole at the top of the machine.
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The development of cinema
Later, technology developed quickly and a film could be shared by many people at a time.
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And these places became bigger and more comfortable. At first, people could watch films only in cinemas. With the invention of television, people began to watch films in their own homes. Living rooms with large-screen TV sets were like small cinemas at home.
Later, companies began to develop new ways to record television programmes with machines that had memory.
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You can also pay to download films and TV programmes on the internet and watch them at any time.
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Will cinemas become a thing of the past? We can’t be sure. Both watching films at home and watching films in a cinema are great fun, but some people think that cinemas are still the best places to watch films.
A. The cinema has changed a lot.
B. Only one person could use it at a time.
C. And moving pictures can be even better.
D. So, places to show films to the public opened.
E. This way, your TVs can store films like computers.
F. Most people preferred cinemas for their better sound.
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