The art of making movies, or the place where these movies are shown. AKA the 7th art (well, at least outside of the USA). The technical process we use today was invented by the Lumiere Brothers c. 1894, although Thomas Edison had a prototype for a kind of "individual cinema" in the same years. Is still rather popular today, under different forms, from Hollywood blockbusters to European intimate movies - although the former is quickly eating up the latter.