2. Answer the following questions based on the text above:

1. Where could one see the earliest pictures of rather a good quality?

2. What kind of the early pictures were available for seeing in music hall programmes?

3. When did the first global changes in movie industry happen?

4. Why did the process of film making attract different type of people?

5. What country became the chief center of cinema production during the First World War? Why?

6. What kind of contribution did Germany make to movie industry?

7. What was Russian cinema famous for?

8. What was the essence of the avant-garde film movement?

9. What was the British screen development?

10. Why is cinema considered to be part of the modern life? Support your opinion.

3. Read and act out the following dialogues:

Invitation to the cinema

Maggie: I've had enough of staying at home all day. Can't we go to the pictures for a change? There's a good film on with Louis de Funes starring. Will we go and see that?

Jim: All right. Louis de Funes? Hm, not a bad idea! Do they say in the local paper what time it starts?

Maggie: Ten o'clock. That's really a bit too late. Besides, we've seen enough of Louis de Funes lately. One film after another. What about driving to the West End and going to see the new French film? That starts at five. We can just make it (be in time).

Jim: The film with Anni Girardo you mean? Fine! Let's go right away (at once).

Steve: Will we go to the pictures?

Michael: Thanks, I'd like to very much.

Steve: What's being shown at the cinema?

Michael: Let's look in the newspaper and see what's being played just now.

Steve: The screen version of Lawrence's best novel "Lady Chatterly’s Lover".

Michael: I hear it's been running for several months and got the highest praise.

William: Hello, Martha! I've been waiting quite a time for you; I thought you were going to be late for the show.

Martha: So sorry, William. I have just missed a bus and had to wait a long time for another one. When does the performance start?

William: At 7.30. Hurry up, hurry up! Walk down the main aisle. Here are our seats, numbers 10 and 11 in the back row.

Martha: Hush! Watch the screen. They are already presenting the newsreel.

4. Match the words and phrases from the text with their meanings:

1. To project an image on to a screen a) the state of being without interest or not having enough eager enjoyment

2. Slapstick b) to represent smth in an appropriate way

3. Lack of enthusiasm c) to invent a complex procedure by careful thought

4. To coin money d) not having or showing any depth of character or understanding

5. to reflect ideas e) a process of management involved a certain amount of different people

6. in consequence f) comedy based on deliberately clumsy actions and humorously embarrassing events

7. to devise film g) to perform in a way that conveys one’s understanding of the creator’s ideas

8. a film-making process h) to convey pictures by means of special devices

9. to interpret history i) to grow rich

10. a shallow film j) as a result