The American Film IndustryWhy is the film industry one of the largest and fastest growing industries in the world? Simple. People like entertainment. Movies are entertainment. Movies are like books, except they're visual. People like to see other people playing roles and acting out a story. Why not turn to plays instead, you ask? Movies give people the actors and the stories, along with background music, special effects, and overall satisfaction over a 2 hour period. Movies can also take you to a physical state that theater cannot. They take you to actual physical locations instead of just cardboard scenes. It's the same reason people love television so much. The birth of cinema took place in the late 1800s. One of the main reasons for the emergence of cinema in the 1890s was the development in the late 1880s of a camera capable of capturing motion and a system of gears to move the film through the camera. William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, a young assistant in Thomas Edison's laboratories, designed an early version of a motion picture camera - called a Kinetograph - which was first patented by Edison in 1893. In early 1893, the first studio The world's movie theater, the "Black Maria," was built on the grounds of Edison's laboratories in West Orange, New Jersey and the first hit film was made - a re-enactment of a sneeze. Most early moving pictures were nonfictional, unedited, crude documentary views of simple, ordinary slices of life—street scenes, police or firefighter activities, or shots of a passing train. Then, in 1894, came another wonderful invention from the Edison Company in the mid-1890s: the kinetoscope. It was essentially a bulky, coin-operated cinema viewer for a single customer, in which images on a continuous strip of looping film were viewed in motion as they rotated in front of a shutter and light. On Saturday, April 14, 1894, the Holland brothers opened their first kinetoscope parlor at 1155 Broadway in New York City and, for the first time, commercially exhibited motion pictures as we know them today. The first viewers of kinetoscope theaters were amazed by the strangest animated images contained in very short films (between 30 and 60 seconds): an approaching train, a parade, women dancing, dogs terrorizing rats, etc. In 1895, Edison projected hand-colored films, middle of paper, and a technologically advanced economy in the world, with a GDP per capita of $31,500, the largest among major industrial nations. . In the United States, there are more than 1,500 (including nearly 1,000 stations affiliated with the five major networks - NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX and PBS; in addition, there are approximately 9,000 cable television systems) broadcasting systems. television broadcasting, and more than 550 movie studios. That was the rate in 1997. Today, those numbers have increased by about 56 percent. Americans love entertainment. This is what they spend their money on. Every year the film industry makes more and more money. It's not just that films are gaining a wider audience and more films are being produced, but there is also the fact that film prices are increasing. Ticket prices are at an all-time high, selling in some locations for as much as $10.50 apiece. Not to mention that when movies go on sale, most VHSs start at a record price of $24.99 and most DVDs.