Essay on Cinema for Class 5-12 (2026)
Cinema 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, and achievement. At the beginning of the century, it would have been unthinkable.
Not only has this miracle been achieved but even natural colors are nowadays convincingly reproduced. Today in Bangladesh, there is hardly any city or town that has not its cinema-hall. The cinema in Bangladesh has become a major industry besides being a popular means of amusement. In point of production, it occupies a position next to Holywood of the USA. It has come to be the cheapest and the most popular form of amusement.
Its vulgarisation: The cinema is, to a certain extent, pushing aside the theatre and jatra. 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 dramatize. Unfortunately, cinemas often ignore higher ideals and motives to make it a commercial success, by screening dramas that appeal to the vulgar tastes.
Sill, sentimental romance, impossible and absurd situations, corrupt music, scenes of crude sex appeal are often the stock-in-trade 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 labor, people go to the cinema for a few 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.
Its influence: 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 the projection of the ideals for a complete life.
They might educate us by representing great scenes from history and biography. 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 it is efficiently organized.
Its uses: In all developed and developing countries the cinema is used for educational purposes. Films are specially made to present truths of history, Curie's Radium has been depicted in a cinema.
Thus abstract lessons of the book-world have become concrete realities of a world in cinema, that has a loan of films for VCP shows in colored TV sets to educational and cultural institutions. Further, where illiteracy is high, as it is in Bangladesh, the cinema might be a splendid aid in our campaign on behalf of adult education.
Conclusion: 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.
