Film Industry Research Paper

Movies were America’s form of visual entertainment before the invention of TV. Today, movies are seen as a lucrative and popular media industry. However, movies make less money than newspapers, television, and publishing. They are expensive, and they do not promise a return of profit. The technology behind movies had a long evolution. It first started with the invention of the photographic gun camera. This camera was used by Etienne- Jules Marey and Edward Muybridge. These men worked on increasing the proficiency of the camera. Muybridge expanded to 24 cameras, and Marey created a camera that could take 12 photographs on one plate. These two men helped create the first motion picture camera. Later, a man named Thomas Edison and his assistant, William K.L. Dickson, created a device called kinetoscope. It was small box that that had film roll and a peephole. People would look in the peephole can see 90-second black-and-white films. The last gentlemen to change the technology of moviemaking was Auguste and Louis Lumière. These two brothers developed a new device that could show film on a large screen. Thomas Edison created the first movie premiere in America with the new Thomas Armat’s Vitascope. Movies started to be played in penny-arcades. These arcades, called nickelodeons, would charge a nickel for …show more content…
The moviemakers decided to create the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors Association (MPPDA). The MPPDA created three rules for films. They should be not produced with lower standards than the filmmaker, have correct standards of life, no ridiculing of humans. The rules were divided into twelve categories. Later, the agency renamed itself the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). The ratings were changed to G for general audiences, PG for mature audiences, PG-13 for parental guidance under 13, R for restricted audiences, and