How Have Motion Pictures Changed Over Time

A big part of common day society are motion pictures. We as people watch them daily and weekly within our lives whether it is on our smartphones, tablets, computers, televisions, or in the actual movie theatre. Overall it is for pure entertainment. Everyone enjoys movies. If we go back to the late 1800s, it was here that motion pictures itself was truly being born. A certain method was finally being developed for pictures to be turned into moving pictures. Eventually it led to film being minutes long to actual full feature length films for an audience to view. It grew and changed slowly, but eventually and dramatically throughout the 1900’s up until our present time. There were films that people could attend to view a fantasy story, whether

It was a time when we could let go of ourselves and become engulfed in a story that was being told. In today’s world, people can now view that on a screen. As the film industry grew, the quality grew as did the meaning. In American culture, it was common for people to go to cinemas, but back during times like World War II, news update about the war and the world were always shown before a film. This gave more incentive for people to attend films, not only to enjoy the movie but to also become updated with news of major events from a motion picture standpoint versus words written in a newspaper or spoken over the radio. In the past two decades, technology has dramatically shifted in the motion picture industry. Even going back as far as the 1970’s, these films relied on a story being told mostly from words being spoken and the situations within the film. It was very script driven in a wording sense. In our modern age, it has shifted