ARGUMENT Cinema is a source of entertainment, knowledge and employment.

CONTENTION

OBJECTION

REASON 1: Provides employment.

OBJECTION 1: Cinema is a factor of bringing about social reforms in our society. (cinema 1)

REASON 2: Cinema enlarges the borders of our knowledge. Social films show the evils of dowry, child marriage, unsociability, drinking, smoking, drug addiction

Co-reason

We can watch as well as know the culture, dress, language and custom of people of different counties.

OBJECTION 2: Cinema causes a lot of harm by showing social content in the movie. (cinema 1)

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REASON 3: Cinema helps us to bring refreshment for our live. OBJECTION 3: Cinema is one of the most sacred and powerful medium of the modern age. (cinema 1)

Co-reason

It helps us to escape, for a while, from the worries and anxieties of because life.

REASON 4: Cinema can be as a medium for educational purpose. OBJECTION 4: Cinema led many students to waste their time and just use a little time to concentrate on their studies. (526 essay)

Co-reason

Films are specially made to present truth of history, geography or sciences in a moving and telling manner.

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REASON 5: Cinema promotes national integration. OBJECTION 5: Cinema almost known for its romanticism and fantasy or mindless rubbish (526 essay)

Because

In a cinema hall, we always find a cross-section of people of all castes, religions, sexes, social and economic status.

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Subrat Magaraj, Essay on the Cinema: Its uses and abuses, (n.d). Retrieved on 13th July 2013 from http://www.preservearticles.com/201103284762/the-cinema-its-uses-and-abuses.html

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Nothing is so popular nowadays like cinema. People easily miss meals but they hardly miss the premier show of a film in which their favorite hero or heroine is acting. It has greatly influenced the youths of our country and there is no exaggeration if say that they have become prey to it in a way.

Cinema has both the aspects. It is good as well as bad. It is a source of entertainment, according to the common concept but we can't deny the fact that it also diverts the attention of our young minds that are said to be the hope of a nation.

Cinema is one of the wonderful inventions of the modern science no doubt, for it has played a great role in molding and shaping the outlook of the people. With its advent, people have felt a new thrill of life and laughter in them.

Films also have helped in uprooting superstitions, religious orthodoxy and fanaticism to some extent by broadening the outlook of the common people. But gone are the days when such films were in making to reflect varying degrees of social concern.

Nowadays cinema is merely known for its romanticism and fantasy or mindless rubbish (O5). It spoils youth and their morals. The story contains no morals. Its romantic love scenes raise baser passions in a human being. There is sex and sex everywhere in the film polluting the whole environment of our society. We see art nowhere but the heroine's half-naked body with vulgar actions. This leads to eve-teasing and other unnatural activities of the young men. Cinema has also given birth too many crimes in the society.

Most of the young robbers have been inspired by the films. They try to imitate the techniques used in the films while doing heinous crimes like looting, kidnapping, killing and the worst of all raping young innocent girls. Nowadays these incidents have become the part of day. The root cause of all this is that low-degrading cinemas are being made. The producers and directors only think about money, and name.

They are least bothered of the progress of society. Our teen-agers are the worst affected lot. As it is the demand of their age, they get attracted to these cheap type dresses and actions of the heroes and heroines, and start becoming dissatisfied with their own lives. Real life not seem exciting to these people of immature mind as lives of actors and actresses on the screen. Not only this, teenagers begin to believe that there are nothing strange about fights, killings and other kinds of violence. Page | 6

Sometimes they start, doing the things that they see in the violent shows. Thus, they are misguided. Cinema also wastes lot of time of the students and they are left with little time to devote to their studies (O4). Most of the film fans are spoiled in due course.

Cinema may be of great value if it is free from these evils. It must be based on some moral values. It must impart healthy entertainment. It must teach some lessons to make it meaningful. It must be in tune with our culture and civilization.

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Cinema is a changed of expression and communication. It was invented by Edison, an American scientists. The cinema plays on important role in the social, moral, political and economic life. D.G. Phalke produced the first Indian silent film, Raja Harishchandra in 1913.

The era of talkie films started in 1931 with the producing of Alam Ara. India is the largest producer of feature films in the world. The films are certified by the Central Board of Film Certification. Cinema is a source of entertainment, knowledge and employment (C). However, the sex and violence portrayed contaminate the minds of the people. The objective of films should be to educate, modify and to bring unity and harmony among the people.

Cinema is a film i.e... a story etc. recorded as set of moving pictures to be shown on screen of a theatre house and television. It is a channel of expression and communication. The cinemas one of the most important inventions of modern science. It was invented by Dison, An American scientist. It is a medium of instruction as well as recreation. The cinema plays an important role in the social, political, educational and moral life.

The history of Indian cinema began with the production of Pundalik by R.G. Torney and N.G. Chitre in 1912. This was followed by the production of Raja Harishchandra by Dhundiraj Govind Phalke in 1913. The latter is the first Indian silent film. D.G. Phalke is considered the father of Indian cinema. Women at that time were not allowed to perform in films. So, the female characters were played by men, dressed as women. The films were silent as there was no sound or dialogue. In 1931, the era of talkie films stared with the production of Alam Ara. Women also stared acting in films.

The early years of the 20th century saw a spate of film making by Indians. Hirala Sen, Jamshedjee Framjee Mada, F.B. Thanewala and Abdullaly Essofally were the pioneers who promoted the producing and exhibition of cinema during that period.

The talkie had brought revolutionary changes in the whole set up of the industry. It was during the thirties that attempts were made to produce talkie films in different regional languages. To see and hear a film in one's own mother tongue caused a mushrooming of film industries in all over India.

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The cinema is making rapid progress in all counties. It is a visual medium. It has the advantage of cutting across linguistic barriers and age. It has certain advantages over both the press and the radio. The press and the radio require the knowledge of a particular language as an aid for understanding. To some extent film can be understood without any such knowledge.

India is the largest producer of features films in the world. Cinema has become very popular in India. it has become a part and parcel of our life. One can see a film at the theatre house or on one's television set. The video and the cable boom have further fueled the craze. Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai are the most important centers of film production.

Films can be exhibited in India only after they have been certified by the Central Board of Film Certification. The Board consists of a chairman and a minimum of 12 and a maximum of 25 members. The headquarters of the Board is located at Mumbai. Indian films are also popular in other counties. The export of Indian films is channelized through the National Film Development Corporation.

Cinema is a source of entertainment (R3). It helps us to escape, for a while, form the worries and anxieties of life. It relieves us of tension. It provides us relaxation. It is also a source of employment to many (R1). Besides providing entertainment, cinema is also a source of employment to many. This field has become so famous that a large number of courses related to cinema, is being offered by almost all the universities.

Cinema enlarges the frontiers of our knowledge (R2). We can watch as well as know the culture, dress, language, customs etc. of people of different counties. A good film inspirers us and emboldens us to strive for a better life. we can gain knowledge of the political, social and economic conditions our country. Educational films can benefit a lot to students in their studies. Films meant for children are also produced every year.

Cinema plays an important role in bringing about social reforms in our society (O1). Social films show the evils of dowry, child marriage, unsociability, drinking, smoking, drug addiction etc. Cinema also highlights against communalism. It portrays how communalism poses a great danger to the unity of the country. The cinema promotes national integration (R5). In a cinema hall, we always find a cross-section of people of all castes, religions, sexes, social and economic status.

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Cinema became the most sacred and powerful medium of the modern age (O3). We have an extremely valuable cultural and artistic heritage. The film directors have to explore this, but seldom they do so.

Cinema causes a lot of harm. Most of the films produced nowadays have little social content (O2). They depict a lot of violence. pornographic details, rape scenes, robbery, theft, cheating murder, etc. They create a bad impact on the minds of the people. They contaminate the social and moral atmosphere of the society. They pollute the minds of youth. They initiate the young into the world of crime.

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Cinematography (cinema, in short), is one of the most popular inventions of modern science, especially that type of it known as the Talkie. To see shadows on a screen, imitating the drama of life even to the point of talking like real men and women, that is, indeed, an achievement.

In the beginning of the century, it would have been unthinkable. Not only has this miracle been achieved but even natural colours are nowadays convincingly reproduced. Today in India, there is hardly a city or town that has not its cinema-house.

The cinema in India has become a major industry besides being a popular means of amusement. In point of production, it occupies a position next to the Hollywood of USA. It has come to be the cheapest and the most popular form of amusement.

The cinema is, to a certain extent, pushing aside the theatre and yatra. While technology has perfected its imitation of life, it diminishes the human appeal.

Since the cinema presents to us human dramas, its usefulness will depend on the quality of life that it seeks to dramatise. Unfortunately, cinemas often ignore higher ideals and motives to make it a commercial success, by screening dramas that appeal to the vulgar tastes. Silly, sentimental romance, impossible and absurd situations, corrupt music, scenes and dances that appeal only to uneducated tastes and ticklish scenes of crude sex appeal are often the stock-intrade of cinema-pictures. There is, however, the Censor Board to prevent vulgarisation of the cinema.

But the majority are not vulgar. After a hard day's labour, people go to the cinema for a couple of hours to relax their jaded nerves. Surely, this does not mean that they want vulgarity or are unable to appreciate the great things. Again and again it has been proved that for the right type of films, there is never a want of spectators.

The Soviet Russian film The Fall of Berlinthough mainly a propaganda stuff, won popularity, as its technical brilliance is wonderful. The Italian film, the Bicycle Thief, the American film. The Roman Holiday, Jurassic Park, The Titanic, Satyajit Roy's Pother Panchali or Bimal Roy's Do Bigha Jamin, Rudali, to mention only a few, drew packed houses for weeks on end.

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Properly guided, cinemas might have an all-pervasive influence on national life and character. Instead of creating a relish for impossible romance, they might lift our minds from the vulgar to the sublime by projection of the ideals for complete life. They might educate us by representing great scenes from history and biography (R4). They might supplement the knowledge that we derive from books by illustrations taken from life. They might even create fairy-world fantasies. It can be a unique medium of mass education and enlightenment, if efficiently organised.

In all progressive countries, the cinema is used for educational purposes. Films are specially made to present truths of history, geography or sciences in a moving and telling manner. Even Madame Curie's Radium has been depicted in a cinema.

Thus, abstract lessons of the book-world become concrete realities of a world in cinema that has the sharp emphasis on reality. There are libraries of films, which make a loan of films for VCP shows in colour TV sets to educational and cultural institutions. Further, where illiteracy is high, as it is in India, the cinema might he a splendid aid in our campaign on behalf of adult education.

In order to use the cinema to the higher needs of a nation, there must be a Board of cultured men ready to enforce a high standard of excellence. Educational films for the instruction of the young as well as the illiterate should be encouraged. The life of a great man on film will be more popular than that of the imaginary hero of a melodrama. Then cinema must be made an instrument of culture, a moral force, and a standard of taste.

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