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The
film industry consists of the technological and commercial institutions of filmmaking: i.e.
production company,
Movie studio, cinematography,
film production, screenwriting,
pre-production,
post production, film festivals, Distribution (business); and actors, film directors and other
film crew.
Though the expense involved in making movies almost immediately led film production to concentrate under the auspices of standing production companies, advances in affordable film making equipment, and expansion of opportunities to acquire investment capital from outside the film industry itself, have allowed
independent film production to evolve.
Modern film industry
The film industry as it stands today spans the globe. The major business centers of film making are concentrated in the United States, EU, India and China.
Distinct from the business centers are the locations where movies are filmed. Because of labor and infrastructure costs, many films are produced in countries other than the one in which the company which pays for the film is located. For example, many U.S. movies are filmed in Canada, the
United Kingdom,
Australia,
New Zealand or in
Eastern European countries.
United States
Hollywood, California is the primary nexus of the U.S. film industry. However, five of the
major film studios are owned by
East Coast of the United States companies. Only The Walt Disney Company (owner of Walt Disney Pictures,
Touchstone Pictures,
Hollywood Pictures, Miramax Films, and the
Pixar Animation Studios) is actually headquartered in
Southern California.
Networking
Business network and establishing strong
relationships are a vital part of
Hollywood. The town is scattered with talented artists who do not possess the means to pitch their ideas or acquire representation. Reading the trades,
Hollywood jargon for reading
Daily Variety or The Hollywood Reporter, and joining a networking group or tracking board are ways to stay on top of the job market as well as the project market.
India
The Indian film industry is multi-lingual and the largest in the world (1200 movies released in the year
2002). The industry is supported mainly by a vast film-going Indian public (the largest in the world in terms of annual ticket sales), and Indian films have been gaining increasing popularity in the rest of the world — notably in countries with large numbers of expatriate Indians. One third of the India's film industry is mostly concentrated in Bombay, and is commonly referred to as "
Bollywood" as an amalgamation of Bombay and Hollywood. The remaining majority portion is spread across south India (in Telugu and Tamil speaking areas).However, there are several smaller centers of Indian film industries in regional languages (Apart from Hindi,Telugu and Tamil) centered in the states those languages are spoken.
China
Hong Kong,
China is a filmmaking hub for the Chinese-speaking world (including the worldwide
diaspora) and East Asia in general. For decades it was the third largest motion picture industry in the world (after Indian and Hollywood) and the second largest exporter. Despite an industry crisis starting in the mid-'90s and Hong Kong's return to Chinese sovereignty in July 1997, Hong Kong film has retained much of its distinctive identity and continues to play a prominent part on the world cinema stage.
Unlike many film industries, Hong Kong has enjoyed little to no direct government support, through either subsidies or import quotas. It has always been a thoroughly commercial cinema, concentrating on crowd-pleasing film genre, like comedy and action, and heavily reliant on formulas, sequels and remakes. Typically of commercial cinemas, its heart is a highly developed
star system (film), which in this case also features substantial overlap with the
Cantopop.
Nigeria
Also known as "Nollywood".
Nigeria was ushered into modern film making by a film known as "Living In Bondage", which featured Kenneth Okonwo, Kanayo.O. Kanayo, Bob Manuel Udokwu, Francis Agu, Ngozi Nwosu, Nnena Nwabueze, etc. This movie, which hit the market in 1992, marked a turning point in the Nigerian Movie Industry and heralded the trend in modern day movie making in Nigera.
The Movie Capital of the Country was in Lagos. However, over the years, there has been a shift from Lagos to Enugu, in the eastern part of the country. This shift is said to be chanpioned by Pete Edochie - a veteran in the communications industry who turned an actor and has become one of the most successful in Nigeria.
Now, with the Launching of TINAPA Studios in Cross River State of Nigeria, we expect yet another shift in the regular base of the movie industry in Nigeria, considering the attractive ultra modern facilities, and beautiful scenery and location of Calabar, the capital of Cross Rivers.
The movie industry in Nigeria would not be complete without a mention of those behind the movies. Not the actors this time, but the sponsors or producers who are mostly based in Onitsha, the commercial capital of Anambra State, of Nigeria.
History
The first feature film ever made was that of 'The Story of the Kelly Gang.' An Australian film based on the infamous Kelly Gang. 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 a breathtaking 80 minutes. It wasn’t 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, in the earliest years of the industry, 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.
Another reason was the distance of
Southern California from New Jersey, which made it more difficult for
Thomas Edison to enforce his motion picture
patents. At the time, Edison owned almost all the patents relevant to motion picture production and, in the East, movie producers acting independently of Edison's
MPPC were often lawsuit or injunction by Edison and his agents. Thus, movie makers working on the West Coast of the United States could work independent of Edison's control. If he sent agents to California, word would usually reach Los Angeles before the agents did and the movie makers could escape to nearby Mexico.
Hollywood
The first movie studio in the Hollywood area, Nestor Studios, was founded in
1911 by Al Christie for David Horsley in an old building on the southeast corner of
Sunset Boulevard and Gower Street. In the same year, another fifteen independent film 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.
In
1913,
Cecil B. DeMille, in association with
Jesse Lasky, leased a barn with studio facilities on the southeast corner of Selma and Vine Streets from the Burns and Revier Studio and Laboratory, which had been established there. DeMille then began production of
The Squaw Man (1914 movie) (1914 in film). It became known as the
Lasky-DeMille Barn and is currently the location of the
Hollywood Heritage Museum.
The Charlie Chaplin Studios, on the northeast corner of La Brea and De Longpre Avenues just south of Sunset Boulevard, was built in 1917. It has had many owners after 1953, including Kling Studios, who produced the Superman Television program series with George Reeves;
Red Skelton, who used the
sound stages for his CBS TV variety show; and CBS, who filmed the TV series
Perry Mason with
Raymond Burr there. It has also been owned by
Herb Alpert's A&M Records and Tijuana Brass Enterprises. It is currently The Jim Henson Company, home of the Muppets. In 1969, The Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Board named the studio a historical cultural monument.
The famous Hollywood sign originally read "Hollywoodland." It was erected in 1923 to advertise a new housing development in the hills above Hollywood. For several years the sign was left to deteriorate. In 1949, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce stepped in and offered to remove the last four letters and repair the rest.
The sign, located at the top of Mount Lee, is now a registered trademark and cannot be used without the permission of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, which also manages the venerable Hollywood Walk of Fame.
image:hollywood.jpg sign as it appears today.
The first
Academy Awards presentation ceremony took place on May 16, 1929 during a banquet held in the Blossom Room of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel on Hollywood Boulevard. Tickets were United States dollar $10.00 and there were 250 people in attendance.
From about
1930, five major Hollywood
movie studios from all over the Los Angeles area, Paramount Pictures, RKO, 20th Century Fox, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and
Warner Bros., owned large, grand Movie theater 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
History of cinema#The Golden Age of Hollywood. In a
United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc., the Supreme Court ruled that movie studios could not own theaters and play only the movies of their studio and
movie stars, thus an era of Hollywood history had unofficially ended. 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, which is still the norm today.
REFERENCES
Allen J. Scott (2005) ON HOLLYWOOD: THE PLACE THE INDUSTRY, Princeton University Press
See also
External links
- b:Movie making manual
- Online Movies, Taiwanese Law, and the American Film Industry - Feb 4, 2002 MP3 Newswire article on the potential impact of Net distribution on the film industry
- Tom Cruise, Paramount And Hollywood Power’s Shift, And Now Hedge Funds - How the multinational corporations that bought the Hollywood studios get profits from movies.
The
film industry consists of the technological and commercial institutions of filmmaking: i.e. production company, Movie studio, cinematography, film production,
screenwriting,
pre-production,
post production, film festivals,
Distribution (business); and
actors,
film directors and other film crew.
Though the expense involved in making movies almost immediately led film production to concentrate under the auspices of standing production companies, advances in affordable film making equipment, and expansion of opportunities to acquire investment capital from outside the film industry itself, have allowed independent film production to evolve.
Modern film industry
The film industry as it stands today spans the globe. The major business centers of film making are concentrated in the United States, EU, India and China.
Distinct from the business centers are the locations where movies are filmed. Because of labor and infrastructure costs, many films are produced in countries other than the one in which the company which pays for the film is located. For example, many U.S. movies are filmed in
Canada, the
United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand or in
Eastern European countries.
United States
Hollywood, California is the primary nexus of the U.S. film industry. However, five of the
major film studios are owned by East Coast of the United States companies. Only
The Walt Disney Company (owner of Walt Disney Pictures,
Touchstone Pictures, Hollywood Pictures,
Miramax Films, and the Pixar Animation Studios) is actually headquartered in Southern California.
Networking
Business network and establishing strong relationships are a vital part of
Hollywood. The town is scattered with talented artists who do not possess the means to pitch their ideas or acquire representation. Reading the trades, Hollywood
jargon for reading
Daily Variety or
The Hollywood Reporter, and joining a
networking group or tracking board are ways to stay on top of the job market as well as the project market.
India
The Indian film industry is multi-lingual and the largest in the world (1200 movies released in the year 2002). The industry is supported mainly by a vast film-going Indian public (the largest in the world in terms of annual ticket sales), and Indian films have been gaining increasing popularity in the rest of the world — notably in countries with large numbers of expatriate Indians. One third of the India's film industry is mostly concentrated in Bombay, and is commonly referred to as "Bollywood" as an amalgamation of Bombay and Hollywood. The remaining majority portion is spread across south India (in Telugu and Tamil speaking areas).However, there are several smaller centers of Indian film industries in regional languages (Apart from Hindi,Telugu and Tamil) centered in the states those languages are spoken.
China
Hong Kong, China is a filmmaking hub for the Chinese-speaking world (including the worldwide diaspora) and East Asia in general. For decades it was the third largest motion picture industry in the world (after Indian and Hollywood) and the second largest exporter. Despite an industry crisis starting in the mid-'90s and Hong Kong's return to Chinese sovereignty in July 1997, Hong Kong film has retained much of its distinctive identity and continues to play a prominent part on the world cinema stage.
Unlike many film industries, Hong Kong has enjoyed little to no direct government support, through either subsidies or import quotas. It has always been a thoroughly commercial cinema, concentrating on crowd-pleasing
film genre, like comedy and action, and heavily reliant on formulas, sequels and remakes. Typically of commercial cinemas, its heart is a highly developed star system (film), which in this case also features substantial overlap with the
Cantopop.
Nigeria
Also known as "Nollywood".
Nigeria was ushered into modern film making by a film known as "Living In Bondage", which featured Kenneth Okonwo, Kanayo.O. Kanayo, Bob Manuel Udokwu, Francis Agu, Ngozi Nwosu, Nnena Nwabueze, etc. This movie, which hit the market in 1992, marked a turning point in the Nigerian Movie Industry and heralded the trend in modern day movie making in Nigera.
The Movie Capital of the Country was in Lagos. However, over the years, there has been a shift from Lagos to Enugu, in the eastern part of the country. This shift is said to be chanpioned by Pete Edochie - a veteran in the communications industry who turned an actor and has become one of the most successful in Nigeria.
Now, with the Launching of TINAPA Studios in Cross River State of Nigeria, we expect yet another shift in the regular base of the movie industry in Nigeria, considering the attractive ultra modern facilities, and beautiful scenery and location of Calabar, the capital of Cross Rivers.
The movie industry in Nigeria would not be complete without a mention of those behind the movies. Not the actors this time, but the sponsors or producers who are mostly based in Onitsha, the commercial capital of Anambra State, of Nigeria.
History
The first feature film ever made was that of 'The Story of the Kelly Gang.' An Australian film based on the infamous Kelly Gang. 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 a breathtaking 80 minutes. It wasn’t 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, in the earliest years of the industry, 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.
Another reason was the distance of
Southern California from
New Jersey, which made it more difficult for Thomas Edison to enforce his motion picture
patents. At the time, Edison owned almost all the patents relevant to motion picture production and, in the East, movie producers acting independently of Edison's
MPPC were often lawsuit or injunction by Edison and his agents. Thus, movie makers working on the
West Coast of the United States could work independent of Edison's control. If he sent agents to California, word would usually reach Los Angeles before the agents did and the movie makers could escape to nearby Mexico.
Hollywood
The first
movie studio in the
Hollywood area, Nestor Studios, was founded in 1911 by
Al Christie for
David Horsley in an old building on the southeast corner of Sunset Boulevard and Gower Street. In the same year, another fifteen independent film 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.
In
1913, Cecil B. DeMille, in association with Jesse Lasky, leased a barn with studio facilities on the southeast corner of Selma and Vine Streets from the Burns and Revier Studio and Laboratory, which had been established there. DeMille then began production of
The Squaw Man (1914 movie) (
1914 in film). It became known as the Lasky-DeMille Barn and is currently the location of the Hollywood Heritage Museum.
The
Charlie Chaplin Studios, on the northeast corner of La Brea and De Longpre Avenues just south of
Sunset Boulevard, was built in 1917. It has had many owners after
1953, including Kling Studios, who produced the
Superman Television program series with George Reeves;
Red Skelton, who used the sound stages for his
CBS TV variety show; and CBS, who filmed the TV series
Perry Mason with
Raymond Burr there. It has also been owned by Herb Alpert's
A&M Records and Tijuana Brass Enterprises. It is currently The
Jim Henson Company, home of the
Muppets. In 1969, The Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Board named the studio a historical cultural monument.
The famous Hollywood sign originally read "Hollywoodland." It was erected in
1923 to advertise a new housing development in the hills above Hollywood. For several years the sign was left to deteriorate. In
1949, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce stepped in and offered to remove the last four letters and repair the rest.
The sign, located at the top of Mount Lee, is now a registered trademark and cannot be used without the permission of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, which also manages the venerable Hollywood Walk of Fame.
image:hollywood.jpg sign as it appears today.
The first
Academy Awards presentation ceremony took place on May 16, 1929 during a banquet held in the Blossom Room of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel on Hollywood Boulevard. Tickets were United States dollar $10.00 and there were 250 people in attendance.
From about 1930, five major Hollywood
movie studios from all over the Los Angeles area,
Paramount Pictures, RKO, 20th Century Fox, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and
Warner Bros., owned large, grand
Movie theater 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
History of cinema#The Golden Age of Hollywood. In a
United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc., the Supreme Court ruled that movie studios could not own theaters and play only the movies of their studio and movie stars, thus an era of Hollywood history had unofficially ended. 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, which is still the norm today.
REFERENCES
Allen J. Scott (2005) ON HOLLYWOOD: THE PLACE THE INDUSTRY, Princeton University Press
See also
External links
- b:Movie making manual
- Online Movies, Taiwanese Law, and the American Film Industry - Feb 4, 2002 MP3 Newswire article on the potential impact of Net distribution on the film industry
- Tom Cruise, Paramount And Hollywood Power’s Shift, And Now Hedge Funds - How the multinational corporations that bought the Hollywood studios get profits from movies.
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