the early industry was built largely by entrepreneurs who wanted to make money entertaining everyone
earliest movies were about real life on story no editing. Georages began to make narrative motion pictures in 1890s. his movie was released in 1902 ‘a trip of the moon’
montage - an edition, tying together two separate scences
films have become story tellers
nicklodeons - the price of admission to see films was one nickel, in the us