Sunday, June 20, 2010

Evolution of Cinema Tickets

The history of film spans over a hundred years, from the latter part of the 19th century to the present day and beyond. Motion pictures developed gradually from a carnival novelty to one of the most important tools of communication and entertainment, and mass media in the 20th century. Motion picture films have had a substantial impact on the arts, technology, and politics.

Whereas the first moving picture patrons fled the sight of a flickering black-and-white train approaching them in the Lumiere brother's Paris theater in the late 19th century, early 21st century audiences will soon be lured to theaters with the promise of a new cinema revolution.

As cinema revolution takes place, movie tickets or stubs also went through its own revolution. The earlier ticket stubs don't have the names of most of the movies because back then theaters just printed bulk tickets without much customization. Starting around 80s, the theaters with the more advanced ticketing systems have the name of the theater and later movie title.

Though they do it electronically nowadays, having to be able to go through the evolution together really mean alot. Do you still keep them? While electronically printed tickets do seem to fade over the years, this hand written one don't.