The 1980 incarnation of Yes included Trevor Horn, Geoff Downes, Steve Howe, Chris Squire and Alan White. When this group split up following the tour for the album Drama, Squire and White joined forces with South African singer and guitarist Trevor Rabin. The three were eventually joined by former Yes member Tony Kaye, and the four began writing and recording demos under the band name "Cinema".

Chris Squire played some of the band Cinema's recordings to former Yes lead singer Jon Anderson, who expressed interest in participating in the project. With four out of the five having been Yes members, it was decided to change the name of the band from Cinema to Yes. The title of the instrumental track "Cinema" is therefore an acknowledgement of the four-piece band that co-wrote and performed it, before Anderson joined and the band was renamed Yes.

"Cinema" developed from a twenty-minute-long track with the working title "Time." At just over two minutes in length, "Cinema" is the shortest track on 90125, and indeed one of the shortest tracks Yes has recorded. Although the band had recorded short tracks before, they were well known in the 1970s for entire albums of lengthy songs, such as 1973's Tales from Topographic Oceans, which has four songs, none of which is shorter than 18 minutes.

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