Cinema can be defined as the art of performed act, intended

to entertain an audience. Most people think of cinema as being

of a very recent origin. In its true entirety, cinema is however,

an ancient entity that has existed with us since 3 millennia at

least. It could have existed prior to beginnings of our organised

societies and settlements at least during the time when humans

were still populating planet earth, but its modern inception can

be thought of as originating during the late 1800s.

Cinema has always been one of the most important mediums

of communicating a theme through visuals and acts. It serves

as the approach of convincing people on a certain topic; and

that is why we have movies and motion pictures on a wide

variety of genres and topics. Cinema has primarily been a

medium of education and entertainment, both served with a

well intended purpose.

Cinema is also an often confused and overlooked subject. Most

people relate cinema only to visuals and the art of motion

picture development. This is however, not fully correct since

cinema itself comprises of several 'forms' of acts like plays,

skits, presentations or simply showcasing a motion entity. In

current times, thousands of cinematic are released every day, in

every language and form available and imaginable. Cinematic

thus do not just relate to developing a motion picture, although

that forms a major part of it.

To understand the true meaning behind cinema, one needs to

go back as early as the 5

th century BC when the Greeks

were one of the first civilised folk to introduce and develop

cinema and distinguish it as a separate form of art. Later on,

the Romans, upon the foundations already laid down by the

Greeks, developed this field further and made it a mainstream

art comprising of plays and presentations that will go on to

encompass almost whole of Europe during the middle ages

when iconic personalities like Shakespeare wrote and executed

some of the finest plays and presentations. Our modern day

cinema is a legacy of thousands of years of accumulation of

development in theatrical arts.