INI100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Miles Brothers, Thomas Armat, Kalem Company
12 Feb 2013
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Introduction: two phases of the american film industry. Just as early cinema style falls into two distinct phases, so to do developments within the american film industry 1896-1905/07 and. The three sectors of the american film industry production, distribution, and exhibition developed unevenly, but in interrelated ways, during these two periods. The american film industry from 1896 until 1905/07. Vaudeville was central to the development of early exhibition, functioning as the chief exhibition outlet. One company would send out a package to theatre managers, consisting of projector and projectionist. Or travelling exhibition in churches n assembly halls: visited especially small towns where there is no vaudeville. The early exhibitor exercised a substantial amount of control over the content of what he projected, ordering and even editing film material. The mutually beneficial relationship existing between the vaudeville theatre and the film producer lent stability to the industry during its first decade. The existing system of outright sale of films discouraged expansion.
