Sinima a Gabon yana da tarihin da bai dace ba. Kodayake Shugaba Omar Bongo da matarsa, Josephine Bongo, sun ƙarfafa yin fim a cikin shekarun 1970, an sami tsaiko na shekaru 20 har sai harkar fim ta fara haɓaka a cikin sabon ƙarni. Kamfanonin Faransanci sun yi fina -finai a Gabon a lokacin mulkin mallaka daga 1936 zuwa gaba. Bayan samun 'yancin kai, Philippe Mory, ɗan wasan kwaikwayo na farko da ya ƙware a Gabon, ya shirya Compagnie Cinematographique du Gabon a 1962, kuma ya taimaka wajen samar da The Cage, wani fim mai fasali ya shiga cikin Fim ɗin Cannes na 1963 . Kamfanin talabijin na ƙasa ya tallafawa fina-finai kamar Pierre-Marie Dong 's Carrefour humain (1969) da Mory's Les tams-tams se sont tus (1972). Kodayake Gabon tana da sinima takwas kawai, Shugaba Omar Bongo da matarsa Joséphine Bongo sun nuna sha'awar fim kai tsaye. Shugaban ya gina gidan sinima mai kujeru 400 a cikin fadar shugaban ƙasa, kuma a 1975 ya kafa cibiyar Center National Du Cinéma tare da Mory a matsayin darakta.