The Film Industry HOMEWORK:

History of the film industry: The first feature film ever made was The Story of the Kelly Gang, an Australian film based on the infamous Ned Kelly. In 1906 Dan Barry and Charles Tait of Melbourne produced and directed The Story of the Kelly Gang, a silent film that ran continuously for an astonishing 80 minutes. It was not until 1911 that countries other than Australia began to make feature films. By this time Australia had made 16 full-length feature films. in the early 1900s, motion picture production companies from New York and New Jersey started moving to California because of the good weather and longer days. Although electric lights existed at that time, none were powerful enough to adequately expose film; the best source of illumination for movie production was natural sunlight. Besides the moderate, dry climate, they were also drawn to the state because of its open spaces and wide variety of natural scenery. The first movie studio in the Hollywood area, Nestor Studios, was founded in 1911 by Al Christie for in an old building on the northwest corner of Sunset Boulevard and Gower Street in LA. In the same year, another fifteen Independents settled in Hollywood. Hollywood came to be so strongly associated with the film industry that the word "Hollywood" came to be used colloquially to refer to the entire industry. From about 1930, five major Hollywood movie studios from all over the Los Angeles area, Paramount, RKO, 20th Century Fox, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Warner Bros., owned large, grand theatres throughout the country for the exhibition of their movies. The period between the years 1927 (the effective end of the silent era) to 1948 is considered the age of the "Hollywood studio system", or, in a more common term, the Golden Age of Hollywood. By the mid-1950s, when television proved a profitable enterprise that was here to stay, movie studios started also being used for the production of programming in that medium. Today, the major business centres of film making are in the United States, Hong Kong and India. In Europe, France, Germany and United Kingdom are the countries that lead movie production. The film industry is a multi-million pound industry, and films are shown daily through many different media platforms all across the world.

Large players in the film industry include: Universal, Warner Bros, Paramount, 20^th Century Fox, the MPAA and the BBFC. The film industry is mostly funded through the sales of films, and box office sales. There are other factors also such as investment and advertising.