CHAPTER 1 Movies Yesterday History and Today People have been communicating with each other for thousands of years What began as rock carvings has slowly changed into books newspapers magazines movies radio TV and the Internet Together they are called media The movie industry plays a valuable role in society Movies like big summer blockbusters can entertain people Documentaries can educate people Movies can use important themes to deliver timely messages that change the way we think 4 21st century skills library
Movies during the late 1800s to early 1900s were called moving pictures or photo plays Once Upon a Time The movie business began in the 1890s not long after the invention of the Kinetograph This was the first workable movie camera There were many limitations to camera technology back then Films had no sound the images were in black and white and they were only about a minute in length By 1910 there were about 9,000 theaters across the United States and movies The Movie Industry 5
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM used several real lions to photograph and film their logo over the years starting with Slats in 1917 were about 10 minutes long Most of the major films in the United States were being made in the Los Angeles California neighborhood of Hollywood By the 1920s some movies had already been made in color The first major motion pictures to use color technology or Technicolor were The Wizard of Oz 1939 and Gone with the Wind 1939 Gone with the Wind became so popular that it earned more money over time than any other movie in history To date it has earned about 3 5 billion 6 21st century skills library
Before advancements in technology movies did everything by hand from building sets to physically cutting and splicing film in order to edit 7
