Microsoft Cinemania
Microsoft Cinemania was an interactive movie guide as part of the Microsoft Home series of reference and educational multimedia application CD-ROM titles produced by Microsoft and published annually beginning in 1992 until 1997.[3] The software was mainly a database of films, in a similar fashion to the Internet Movie Database, and gave descriptions of the films and who starred in them.Cinemania contained professional material by: The program also included over 2000 still images for movies and actors, a large number of sound clips, dialogues and soundtracks, and a smaller selection of full-motion video clips.As the amount of material increased with each new edition, the quality of media tended to decrease, in order to fit everything on a single CD-ROM.Cinemania 97 also had guided tours from numerous celebrities and online features which made use of an associated MSN website.