A Brief History of the Motion Picture Industry

Film and movie production is both art and industry. Many people are considered to be the invention of this movie. Some of the main names associated with the movie include Thomas Edison, Eadweard Muybridge and Lumiere Brothers. There are several stages to making a movie. Thomas Edison was born on February 11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio. He once used to be his most popular invention - the best memory of a lightbulb. He died on West Orange on October 18, 1931. Eadweard Muybridge was born on Kingston Upon Thames in the UK on April 9, 1830.

Film technology was developed by Thomas Edison and most of his early work was done at his West Orange Institute. Edison 's Black Maria is the first movie studio. The first movie industry in the United States began in Fort Lee in 1907 and the first studio was built here in 1909. Passaic's DuMont Lab developed an early movie and televised it to an individual's home for the first time . Many television programs and movies were filmed in New Jersey. Since 1978, the state has continued the work of the Film Television Committee to encourage filming in the province. New Jersey has long provided tax deductions to television programmers. Governor Chris Christie paused credits in 2010, but in 2011 the New Jersey Council approved the recovery and expansion of the tax credit plan

Case 2 The film industry is a competitive business. More than 50 studios each year produce 300 to 400 new movies, and the economic success of each movie is very different. Generally used variables are the weekly total sales (US dollars), total sales (US dollars), the number of movie shows and the number of weeks the movie is ranked in the top 60. We measure the success of the movie. Data gathered about 100 movie samples produced in 2005 is included in a file called Movies - CD file. Table 18 shows the data on the top ten movies in this file. Management report