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A number of factors led to the development of the motion picture industry such as photography, series photography, and the kinetograph to name a few. The motion picture industry as we now know it today is the product of a culmination of series or steps of modern photographs dating back thousands of years ago as drawings on a cave wall. The technology that allows movies all the factors of cinematic language was not readily available all those years ago. However, that didn't hinder the artists whose visions of stories would be told using the resources they had at that time. The problem was being able to set photographs in motion since there was a lack of technology at that time to accomplish such a task as fluidly as its done today. However, image projection itself …show more content…

While viewers had an introduction to sound in movies in the early 1900’s with “talkies” sound conversion wasn't finished until 1930. Music encompassed so much joy and excitement to the viewer that they wanted more films with sound. Between 1927 and 1941 Hollywood produced over 10,000 movies with a wide range of genres. However, during the early 1920’s the majority of films were based on the taboo subjects of sex and violence which earned Hollywood a personal warning from the government to contain the matter it had been vastly producing. This led to the development of the Motion Picture Production Code, a detailed set of guidelines on appropriate and inappropriate material(Barsam, Monahan 425). The films produced during this era, World War II, were written with the viewer in mind. Meaning the objective was to get the viewer to forget for the duration of the film the sad happenings currently at play in the world. While providing entertainment the movies highlighted happy themes such as family life and community(Barsam, Monahan

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