The Motion Picture Industry In The 1920's

The development of the motion picture industry came from industrial boom in the United States during the early 1900’s. Seeing motion pictures was one of the “it” things to do in the big cities booming from industrialization. “Historians routinely connect american industrialization and urbanization to the advent of a consumer society” (Lewis, 3) To me this quote says a lot. People do what is cool, popular and of course the newest and best fads. What amazes me the most as these things were happening in that time period of the 1900s to 1920’s when things started to really boom. It shows people adapt to change all the time. Another factor that really lead to motion picture industries expanding and getting bigger in America is the money that was

It changes the way people do. For an example a narrative structure which is the way the movies are filmed to keep the audience excited or interested in what is going on. An example of how things change in society and the way films have to change to keep people engaged in them is like how a classic film like Breakfast at Tiffany’s while a great movie and very popular at the time of its release is vastly different than movie that would have come out 15 years ago like Pulp Fiction or a movie that would come out today like The Avengers. Putting a movie out today like Breakfast at Tiffany's would most likely fail and would be a colossal flop and in vice versa if Pulp Fiction or Avengers came out at the time of Breakfast at Tiffany's it would most likely fail because people would be in shock for one Pulp Fiction is twisted and violent and unheard of for that time but now is considered a classic. To me this shows that as times change, people change and our tastes change over time so must everything else around us. The film industry has done a great job adapting to time from the narrative structure aspect. Beyond that type of development another way the the movie industry has developed is by its use of technology. For example going from silent movies to movies with audio, from black and white movies to color movies, from stereo sound to surround sound, standard format to high definition and from 2d movies to 3d movies. Again as stated earlier things change. People want more and specifically American people want more. To see examples of this look at how in awe people were with Star Wars A New Hope to see ships flying and lightsabers or blasters, or creatures like Yoda who are nothing but puppets. We look at these movies today and almost laugh at how terrible they look compared to today going to see the new Fast and Furious movie where the show people driving their cars off buildings