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Interactive cinema is a term used to describe interactive movies screened in front of an audience, in which the audience plays an active role in the showing of the movies.

The 1967 movie Kinoautomat 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.

In 1992, interactive movie I'm Your Man, directed by Bob Bejan, appeared movie theaters, marketed as "The World's First Interactive Movie", in which at specific points in the narrative, viewers can decide to follow a specific character and the trajectory of the character's movements.

The 2007 interactive movie Late Fragment was premiered at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival. The movie interprets viewer clicks to change scenes, either skipping or revealing more footage. The movie is distributed in the DVD format, but is screened using custom software that allows high-definition playback quality, minimizes the lag between clicks, and allows the use of any number of input devices.