Indeed, most cinemas were small, owned and managed by eminent local men, and could be considered as a sort of community centre or club.
A paradigm of this process is found in television's big brother, the cinema.
Many saw this as a just reward for one of the greatest achievements in cinema history.
Specifically, it explores the role of music in the construction of cinematic subjectivity and cinema's potential to engage with our understanding of musical subjectivity.
Inevitably, television as an historical subject will have to confront the same hurdles that cinema has had to.
Are people in moving rooms, patrons of the cinema, and users of virtual reality devices really fooled?
Of the new mass-entertainment phenomena in the early twentieth century, cinema was the most influential.
With spectacular enthusiasm she also chats about many other wartime topics: cinema, theatre, radio, sport, political rumours, social gossip and news from the battlefronts.