It’s a great pleasure to me that I am here to say something about cinema. I am very young and know almost nothing about it.
December 28 1895, Grand Cafe in Paris, the first theater was opened. It really possible that image of people and things could be projected on screen and it grows by the touch of fine hands of our cinematic legends Mile, Griffith, Potter, Edition, Eastman…
100 years have gone and cinema has crossed all that years successfully, many ups and downs many inventions also many changes have gone. Cinema became an art and it’s not easy to became an art. The technical phases succeeded one another Silent, Sound, Color, Wide-screen, Cinerama & 3d. It’s clearly seen that cinema always motivated by the social happenings of that same time. As we know Russian cinema is surrounded by Russian & Cuban revolution, Earth & Battleship-Potemkin are best examples. In the same way German cinema surrounded by the expressionism as a style of painting and theater which shout to express the emotional experience rather than the externally perceived reality of the 1st world war. As cinema is a combination of art & science, inventions also had a pure reflection on it.
Let’s come to the aesthetics:-
When time and space combine and look forward to define an expression through image and sound, Cinema has created. The space which has perspective, depth & dimension and time is invisible which realized through speed, motion, pace & finally movement.
Considering the intricacies of the process, cinema has found a way of expressing the complexities of human nature through an entertaining, enlightening and exciting form and became a very sophisticated medium of communication. It has resulted out of the need of the society to expose, explore & experiment the invisible, the unknown and the imperceptible factors which governs and influences the human life and bring it in to limelight. Not-only cinematic growth in politically, technically & intellectually have done but increase in cinematic production as well as spectator-ship also an achievement for us in the previous century. In a small way the cinema of 20th century became the literature for the 21st century.
Things have changed…
Now cinema has grown-up new challenges, new opportunities. Electronic media has developed enough that you can make your own film by a small phone, which is now I think all of your pockets. Things are less-riskily, less-expensive and easy to handle. New film-makers are telling that cinema is now not in the hand of technicians. By the help of digital revolution they have thrown away the techno-phobia developed in earlier times. Our younger brother television is now also in that side. So what about us??!! (Kya karenge hum).
I just want to alert you all for that new challenge…. Thank you..
(on the occasion of 100th birthday of Cinema)
Dec-28-2005
Manas Mishra 