The cinema of the United States has had a large effect on the film
industry in general since the early 20th century. The dominant style
of American cinema is the classical Hollywood cinema, which developed
from 1913 to 1969 and characterizes most films made there to this day.
While Frenchmen Auguste and Louis Lumière are generally credited with
the birth of modern cinema, American cinema soon came to be a dominant
force in the emerging industry. It produces the largest number of
films of any single-language national cinema, with more than 700
English-language films released on average every year. While the
national cinemas of the United Kingdom (299), Canada (206), Australia,
and New Zealand also produce films in the same language, they are not
considered part of the Hollywood system. That said, Hollywood has also
been considered a transnational cinema. It produced multiple language
versions of some titles, often in Spanish or French. Contemporary
Hollywood off-shores production to Canada, Australia, and New
Zealand.Hollywood is considered the oldest film industry where
earliest film studios and production companies emerged, and is also
the birthplace of various genres of cinemaâ€"among them comedy, drama,
action, the musical, romance, horror, science fiction, and the war
epicâ€"having set an example for other national film industries.In
1878, Eadweard Muybridge demonstrated the power of photography to
capture motion. In 1894, the world's first commercial motion-picture
exhibition was given in New York City, using Thomas Edison's
kinetoscope. The United States produced the world's first sync-sound
musical film, The Jazz Singer, in 1927, and was at the forefront of
sound-film development in the following decades. Since the early 20th
century, the US film industry has largely been based in and around the
30 Mile Zone in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. Director D.W.
Griffith was central to the development of a film grammar. Orson
Welles's Citizen Kane (1941) is frequently cited in critics' polls as
the greatest film of all time.
industry in general since the early 20th century. The dominant style
of American cinema is the classical Hollywood cinema, which developed
from 1913 to 1969 and characterizes most films made there to this day.
While Frenchmen Auguste and Louis Lumière are generally credited with
the birth of modern cinema, American cinema soon came to be a dominant
force in the emerging industry. It produces the largest number of
films of any single-language national cinema, with more than 700
English-language films released on average every year. While the
national cinemas of the United Kingdom (299), Canada (206), Australia,
and New Zealand also produce films in the same language, they are not
considered part of the Hollywood system. That said, Hollywood has also
been considered a transnational cinema. It produced multiple language
versions of some titles, often in Spanish or French. Contemporary
Hollywood off-shores production to Canada, Australia, and New
Zealand.Hollywood is considered the oldest film industry where
earliest film studios and production companies emerged, and is also
the birthplace of various genres of cinemaâ€"among them comedy, drama,
action, the musical, romance, horror, science fiction, and the war
epicâ€"having set an example for other national film industries.In
1878, Eadweard Muybridge demonstrated the power of photography to
capture motion. In 1894, the world's first commercial motion-picture
exhibition was given in New York City, using Thomas Edison's
kinetoscope. The United States produced the world's first sync-sound
musical film, The Jazz Singer, in 1927, and was at the forefront of
sound-film development in the following decades. Since the early 20th
century, the US film industry has largely been based in and around the
30 Mile Zone in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. Director D.W.
Griffith was central to the development of a film grammar. Orson
Welles's Citizen Kane (1941) is frequently cited in critics' polls as
the greatest film of all time.
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