History of US Film -Until WW1, France leading film producing country. -By the 1920s, most films came from United States. -Today America is the leading country in the exportation if films. -American Cinema is mainly associated with the Hollywood entertainment industry, the "dream factory". -1893, Edison constructed a motion picture studio in his laboratory. -Edvin S. Porter took charge of motion-picture production at Edison's company and began making longer films. Porter's most notable film- The Great Train Robbery (1903) -In 1920s, Chaplin began making feature- length comedies, including The Kid (1921) and The Gold Rush (1925) . -Advent of recorded sound in the 1920s changed motion pictures. -First demonstrated in 1926, recorded sound was in almost Universal use by 1930 . -Two new genres that flourished with the coming of sound were gangster films and musicals (Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers) . -Filmed animation gained in popularity; Walt Di...
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