CIN201Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Essanay Studios, Vitagraph Studios, Kalem Company
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Developments within the american film industry in two distinct phases. The three sectors of the american film industry (production, distribution, and exhibition) developed unevenly during these two periods. Vaudeville was central to its development, functioning as the chief exhibition outlet. One company would send out a package to theatre managers, consisting of projector and projectionist. The early exhibitor exercised a substantial amount of control over the content of what he projected, ordering and even editing film material. The mutually beneficial relationship existing between the vaudeville theatre and the film producer lent stability to the industry during its first decade. The existing system of outright sale of films discouraged expansion. Exchange system: a form of film rental that supplanted sales beginning in. 1903, with the exchange operator functioning as a middle man. The majority of the footage produced in this period was devoted to actualit s. Story films gained in popularity beginning in 1903.
