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Promotional poster of Cinema Paradiso.

A long time has passed since the Lumière brothers shot and screened La sortie des ouvriers des usines Lumière à Lyon Monplaisir, the first film in the history of the cinema. Filmmaking became known as the seventh art, and it has certainly become a leading artistic activity and a form of narration and entertainment for the public on a par with other arts.

In the past, particularly in small towns, film going started around the parish. There were local secular clergy and monks/nuns that ran schools and whose work included teaching catechesis. Other activities were also organised and included parish or school cinema, setting up mountaineering groups and trips to the countryside.

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