Interactive cinema
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Interactive cinema tries to give the audience an active role in the showing of movies. The movie Kino-Automat by Czechoslovakian director Raduz Cincera presented in the Czech Pavilion in Expo '67 in Montreal is considered to be the first cinema-like interactive movie. The availability of computers for the display of interactive video has made it easier to create interactive movies.
Another newer definition of interactive cinema is a video game which is a hybrid between participation and viewing, giving the player - or viewer, as it were - a strong amount of control in the characters' decisions. A recent successful incarnation of this idea is Indigo Prophecy, a game dubbed as "interactive cinema" by its France-based developer, Quantic Dream. The game was released under the alternate title Fahrenheit in the UK and other countries during 2005, and has received international acclaim for re-inventing the adventure game genre.
