A history of the movies from the beginning. It's about how it was created, the people who made it, the ideas that transformed it, the people who created them, the places that showed them, and the rest of us who watched them.
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A history of the movies from the beginning. It's about how it was created, the people who made it, the ideas that transformed it, the people who created them, the places that showed them, and the rest of us who watched them.
While California was already starting to take on movie people in 1910, Americans saw the start as someting much more exotic than that. Well look around at tht California on this episode.
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The early movies were moving out of the studios and into the outlying areas. This includes the development of westerns, movies had in foregn lands, and comapnies starting to eye California as a place to work.
When President Theodore Roosevelt retired from the Presidency, he immediately traveled to Africa to hunt big game in the name of the Smithsonian Institute. In the wake of this expedition, movies were made both with his permission and without it.
Theater operator Roxy Rothephal started a drive to create a better movie watching experience by promoting better looking and larger movie theaters with the kind of amenities found in theater and high class department stores.
As the movie companies become interested in making western themed movies, a shift takes place as some ofthe companies start making westerns in the west.
The Edison Company was one of the few early movie companies to leave some historical record about how it made movies. We'll take a bit of a look at the work process.
The attempt to organize the founding fathers of the movie industry into a Patent Trust soon led to the appearance of the first independent film companies that would have nothing to do with the Trust companies. This was the beginning of the Patent War.
The growing atraction of the movies grabbed the attention of America's power structure, not just the money men, but the moralists who were of two minds concerning the movies. On this episode we look at who they were.
The Patent Trust was now completely organized, so they set out to force the film distributors and movie exhibitors to operate according to rules devised by the Trust. Good luck!
After a year of political gamesmanship, the two different patent groups, one headed by Edison Company, and the other headed by the Biograph Company, merged to create the official Patent Trust.
A history of the movies from the beginning. It's about how it was created, the people who made it, the ideas that transformed it, the people who created them, the places that showed them, and the rest of us who watched them.
