The beginnings of cinema in Georgia
Dr. Zviad Dolidze
The first cinema show experienced Tbilisi (Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia) 1896th For a day was the "Cinematograph" to the Lumière brothers brought to Georgia and Georgian society was presented, the Georgian newspaper "Cnobis purceli" ("Information Sheet") announced that like this:.
"Satavadaznauro teatri (" Stately Theater ")
" Today, on 16 November 1896, is the celebrated throughout Europe Cinematograph, current photo images of the brothers Lumiere presented. Beginning 8 clock in the evening. The prices of the seats are lowered considerably. "
is unfortunately not known who initiated the event at that time and organized. Not excluded, is that there is one which is" location hunters themselves who commissioned Lumières with its camera images made.
Among them were later become known cinematographers, such as Alexander Promio, it may be assumed from that that they themselves have been in Georgia.
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Later Businessmen, who visited Georgia in Tbilisi in various places such as theaters or circuses, films are shown, and aroused great interest among the Georgians. Already in 1904 a few small movie theaters were opened (Iluzioni, Urani, Skifi, Mulen-Elektriki, etc.) where they showed foreign films, mostly French. In the small screens fit 50-60 audience.
was also suitable for summer screenings movie theater under the stars. 1905 built the owner of the cinema theater "Iluzioni" Sophie Ivanizkaja in Muschtaeti park such open-air cinema with 150 seats. She bought movies, they showed, it occurred to them obsolete and no more customers attracted - and then sold them to other cities.
The evening program lasted about an hour and consisted of several short films of very different genre. This began as a documentary that views of different cities or villages, historical sights and monuments to thinking ¬ put. Also, beautiful landscapes and the lives of foreign nations have been presented. In the second part of the film program there was "Chronicles" - movie reviews from different countries about political events, official meetings, ceremonies, public celebrations, etc. The third part is movies about fairies, fantasy characters and mythological figures, in the fourth were comedies shown in the fifth part and finally films with dramatic action. Often, the program also included news and sports culture.
The result is a versatile program offering that informed the audience and simultaneously maintained. The films were still without sound, they were accompanied by live music that was played by specially invited silent film musicians. With matching pieces from the classical and modern music they wanted to achieve synchronous synthesis of sounds and images broadcast.
An important information brokers were the subtitles. They recorded mainly the movie, the name and symbol of the film company, gave time and place of the gifts to ¬ hens and showed, if necessary, Dialog texts also. Later, data were performed on the film crew (the name of the director, the scriptwriter, cameraman and actor).
camera and film projector are still operated by hand.
film and film production attracted many people in its spell, because it could make a lot of money. 1907, in Tbilisi has already built more movie theater: "Muse," Apollo "," Lira "," Minioni "," Cinema-disk "etc. Often referred to as" projector "or" Electric Theater "Branch offices of foreign film companies. were opened in Tbilisi. They offered to the local cinema theater productions and made his own films about life in Tbilisi, which were sent out and shown in local movie theaters. Unfortunately, few of the then filmed documentaries have been preserved to our times.
course, this early film productions had no high artistic qualities. However, the movie drew the visitors by magic, it was for all social classes accessible, understandable, experience the Presidency.
From the Georgian Marika Lapauri-Burk
Photo: Former Apollo Cinema Theatre in Tbilisi
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