ARB 3101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Arab Cinema
Document Summary
First arab cinema screening was in 1896. Before that, attempts were made in north america and europe to invent a machine that would deconstruct and reconstruct movement. Two lumber brothers invented a machine that can catch images and project them again. Rst screening of the lumber movies were in 1896: were 1 minute movies. 1st egyptian short movie was in 1921. First studio was created in egypt in 1935. Rst tunisian lm was made in 1922. They arab countries started to produce cinema themselves in the 1920s.