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Impact of Film Across Cultures
When Thomas Edison filmed his assistant Fred Ott “sneezing” in front of the camera, the world of 1889 had no idea the impact Edison’s kinetoscope would have on culture around the world. Within a few years his new method to project a motion picture that could be viewed by large audiences had spread to Europe and beyond. Soon the first story was told on film, and by 1915 a feature-length historical epic, Birth of a Nation, was produced in America. The version of American history that producer David Wark Griffith chose to present about America’s Civil War caused many political demonstrations from the public. President Woodrow Wilson himself referred to the film as a “history written with lightning.” This first feature-length film did not only prove to be first in its length but also proved the emotional and persuasive influence film has had on its audiences since the very beginning.

By 1927, when the Vitaphone process was invented to synchronize film’s picture with sound, there were around 15,000 movie houses in America. The next invention addition that came to film was color. The film Wizard of Oz is famous for being the first feature-length film to debut Technicolor’s three-color technology in 1932. Movie magic became the words to describe the cinematic experience in the 1930s. The magic was right before your eyes like never before with sound and color. For those who could afford it during the Depression of the 1930s, movie magic was the best way to forget your troubles.

Once television came and put the public back in the homes for their entertainment, movie palaces were the first to die. In only one decade the number of tickets sold at the box office were reduced from 90 million to less than half that by the late 1950s. The film industry had to adjust to find new incentives for coming back to the movies.