The early industry was built largely by entrepreneurs
who wanted to make money entertaining everyone
• Earliest movies were about real life, no story, no
editing. Georges Melies began to make narrative
motion pictures in 1890s.
• “Montage” – an editing, tying together two separate
scenes.
• Films have become story tellers.
• “Nickelodeons” – the price of admission to see films
was one nickel, in the US.