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Birth of the Movies

Did you know that cinema ¡is more than 100 years old? Moving pictures (0)
invented by the brothers Louis and Auguste Lumière. The first showing of a moving picture or
“movie° (l) place in a cinema in Paris on 28 December 1895. On that day, the Lumière
brothers showed movies (2) their newly-invented machine, called the Cinematographe.
The audience saw a funny film in (3) . a gardener spilt a lot water on (4) by accident.
Everyone really loved ít!

Cinema very (5) became popular all over the world. In 1970, the first film studios
were built in a (6) ofLos Angeles called Hollywood. (7) the 1920s, Hollywood had
become the centre of the world film (8) . To begin with, the movies had no sound. Words
(9)  _— onthescreen fom time to time to (10) the story.