LANG 4540 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Social Democratic Party Of Germany, Walter Hasenclever, Bourgeoisie
14 Jan 2016
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In 1906, the first permanent movie theater was established in. Followed by rapid growth of movie theaters; by 1910 there were about one thousand movie theaters throughout germany. 1910, distributors moved toward renting exclusive rights for the showing of particular movies, which prevented movie theaters from entering into direct competition with other nearby theaters. Movies became longer and a star system emerged. Because early movies were quite popular with their relatively uneducated, working-class audience, they faced criticism from the upper class. The nation had undergone breathtaking economic growth since its foundation as a unified reich or empire in 1871. Germany had transformed itself from the sleepy agricultural country it had been at the beginning of the. 19th century into one of the world"s major industrial, economic, scientific, and military powers by the end of the 19th century.
