The concept of motion picture is a very unique one. Purely for the entertainment of the audience. Something we could easily live without but also something that has changed all of our lives for the better.

Nothing makes people more comfortable than watching a movie in their home. There is so many genres and types of movies you can watch. I strongly believe that there is a type of movie for every person on this planet. Motion picture was invented in 1892 by Edison and Dickson. Their invention obviously took off almost immediatley and was commercialized the following year. It obviously never looked back from there. Expanding and expanding quickly across the world. The field of cinema turned the world around. Jobs and lifestyles have come from that industry. Actors and actresses are some of the highest people in the world making you an instant celebrity. Thousands of movies are produced every year across the world.

For our film this week we were assigned to watch “Film History: Rise of the studio system. I really liked the brief history that it gave on the start up of motion picture. Edison ended up not happy with the amount of foreign films on US screens. He stablished a group called “The Trust” or “Edison Trust” in which their responsibilities were to standardize the distribution of movies and motion pictures, making it allowable to only have US films shown on US screens. They introduced the concept of rentals and tried to end the basic sale of movies and films. They were cut as a group in 1915, only seven years after they established, they shut down. Shut down for conflicts within the industry. In the film they talked about how the US was so successful because of pivotal political and global factors around that area in that time frame. The three examples and major events that were talked about to back up this statement were the fact that the Panama Canal opened, Franz Ferdinad was assasinated and also “Filming of a Birth of a Nation”. The Panama Canal opening was a huge factor because that really showed everyone that we were in “perfect economic condition”. This made it able to produce very quality movies and films. The US put a lot of time and effort and money obviously to produce “Birth of a Nation” With Franz Ferdinand dying, that forced Europe into World War 1 making the film production all over that country to come to a hault only boosting US to jump over competition when it came to film production at that time.

I really liked this film as I learned a lot about the history and how motion picture really lifted off. I don’t think we realize how much we learn and focus on movies and short mini series. We spend a lot of our free time on. Netflix or Hulu or any other streaming site and we sit for hours and watch these movies and series. Films and motion pictures consume so much of our time.