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Motion Picture Filmography of Wayne County, Ohio (view source)
Revision as of 10:29, 20 February 2022
, 10:29, 20 February 2022→Comprehensive History
==Comprehensive History==
==Comprehensive History==
During the early years of the cinema, 1895 to 1910, local films were a regular feature of the picture show.
During the early years of the cinema, 1895 to 1910, local films were a regular feature of the picture show. Audiences and exhibitors alike recognized local views as motion pictures that were made near the site of their intended exhibition in order to give those people the opportunity to see themselves as others saw them on the big screen. One could be captured in a local film in much the same manner that one made the decision to go see a picture show: just by showing up.
Local filmmaking starts to change around 1910, when what is best described as the “institutionalization” of the cinema began. Film distributors started to circulate film programs on a regular, and predictable, basis. Film production itself became more organized, and within a few years, the building blocks of the industry—genres and stars—were in place. In most cities and towns, the movies themselves went from an occasional spectacle shown at a fair or entertainment exhibit to a permanent movie house/theater, and became a fixture in local life. In many ways, the cinema’s arrival as an institution occurred precisely at the same time that a “moving picture theater” was established in town.
Instead of paying for production costs upfront, filmmakers asked business organizations and other local groups to sponsor their work. Rather than exhibiting their movies in a temporary location, they contracted with theater managers to show their films at the new movie house in town. Instead of leaving the subjects of their films to chance, filmmakers planned scenes of particular people and places, and, within a few years, began shooting narrative fiction pictures.
==Filmography of Known Films==
==Filmography of Known Films==