T 1-££P991 a Chronological History of the Turkish Cinema
t 1-££P991 A Chronological History of the Turkish Cinema (1914-1988) Agâh Özgüç £ ( he cinema is such an invention that one day, as will be seen, it will change the outcome of world civilisation much more than the invention of gun powder, electricity or printing. The cinema will give to people living in the most distant places of the world the chance to know and love each other. The cinema will erase the differences in thoughts and appearance between human beings and be of great help in the realisation of the human ideal. We must give to the cinema the importance that it is worthy of.” Kemal Atatürk Undoubtedly each country has its own history of the cinema and such an history is confirmed by documents. According to such documents, the official history of the cinema, known then as the cinématograph, begins on December 22, 1895, in Paris, at the Grand Café, near the Boulevard des Capucines, where two young Frenchmen, the brothers Louis and Auguste Lumière, stage a first showing. Agah Ozgüç, Researcher 53 TURKISH REVIEW According to several sources the cinema enters Turkey first through private showings, held at the Sultan’s court (The Yıldız Palace), followed by public ones. We know, for example, that in 1897 a Rumenian citizen of Polish origin, Sig mund Weinberg staged a first public show in Istanbul, the place being Sponeck’s beerhouse in Galatasaray square. 1914 Starting from 1908 more movie theaters are opened in various cities, most of them owned by foreigners or minorities. Practically, the history of the Turkish cinema starts on November 14, 1914, when Fuat Uzkinay, being at that time an army officer, shoots a 150 meter long documentary (Ayos Stefanos’daki Rus Abidesinin Yıkılışı/T/ıe Demolition o f the Russian Monument in St.
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