The Film Industry: The Evolution Of The Movie Industry

Many people don’t think about it so much, but movies (or just film in general) have become such a big part of our lives that we don’t think much of it because it just feels like a usual part of living. But have you ever wondered why this is, and how far back film started? Movies and film have been around for a long time, have developed in big ways throughout time, and has advanced in such a big and new way to this day. Now when you go back to the beginning of the making of film, it did not look and run the same way it does today. It did have a similar purpose, which was the “motion of pictures.” Now this was after the invention of photography, so the purpose of this was to put individual images in a way they looked as if they were moving.

Hollywood is known to be the home of the movie industry, but why is that so? Because of the increase of movie popularity, industries wanted to create better conditioned and more comfortable theater places for attraction purposes. Year-round outdoor filming was originally based in New York and Chicago, but their weather conditions only allowed use for a portion of the year. So, many companies attempted to look for different locations with better/warmer conditions such as Texas, Florida, etc. but the most successful places they found was Hollywood. Not only did it provide year-round warm weather, but it also had close, easy access to natural, unique landscapes to shoot around. This was the beginning of the iconic Hollywood movie industry. Some of the earliest and influential film companies were warner bros., paramount, 20th century fox, and more. All owning their own film studios and sets. “By 1915, more than 60 percent of U.S. film production was centered in Hollywood” (The History Of

It all involved actors doing dramatic and overly animated movements to attract the eyes of the audience. Live music was provided by musicians in the theaters; and to narrate the story of the film, words and titles were written to pop up in the film. Charlie Chaplin was an English actor who was one most famous and known in silent films. This era was very big for a while, but they then began to diminish around the late 1920’s. In 1920, Warner Bros. was just a small company looking for ways to expand. So they took a chance on the idea of talking films when they heard of a device called the Vitaphone going for sale. It was a sound-on-disc system that had no interest from the bigger film industries. In 1926, Warner Bros. deputed their first release of film with sound of Don Juan. This became a major breakthrough, earning Warner Bros. millions of dollars and spreading to theaters all over the country. By next year, they came out with their second sound film, The Jazz Singer. This era was the birth of the “talkie”, causing an increase of audience members coming back into the cinema. By 1930, silent film was a thing of the past (The history of movies). Because of the introduction of sound into film, this created new genres such as action, documentaries, musicals, westerns, comedies, horror movies, etc. Now as time goes on, not only is sound added on, but color begins to as well. Around the