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1. Film industry ( Acquired From Google.com )
The Babelsberg Studio near Berlinwas the first large-scale film studio in the world (founded 1912) and the
forerunner to Hollywood. It still produces global blockbusters every year.
By the late 1890s, the first motion picture companies were established in the US, France,
Britain and elsewhere.
The most successful motion picture company in the United States, with the largest
production until 1900, was the American Mutoscopecompany.
This was initially set up to exploit peep-show type films using designs made by W.K.L.
Dickson after he left the Edison company in 1895.[23] His equipment used 70 mm wide film,
and each frame was printed separately onto paper sheets for insertion into their viewing
machine, called the Mutoscope. The image sheets stood out from the periphery of a
rotating drum, and flipped into view in succession.[24][25]

2. Besides American Mutoscope, there were also numerous smaller producers in the United
States, and some of them established a long-term presence in the new century. American
Vitagraph, one of these minor producers, built studios in Brooklyn, and expanded its
operations in 1905.
The Pathé Brothers, by Adrien Barrère.
In France, the Lumière company sent cameramen all round the world from 1896 onwards to shoot films,
which were exhibited locally by the cameramen, and then sent back to the company factory in Lyon to
make prints for sale to whomever wanted them. There were nearly a thousand of these films made up to
1901, nearly all of them actualities.[26]

3. By 1898, Georges Méliès was the largest producer of fiction films in France, and from this point onwards
his output was almost entirely films featuring trick effects, which were very successful in all markets.
The special popularity of his longer films, which were several minutes long from 1899 onwards (while
most other films were still only a minute long), led other makers to start producing longer films. [27]
In 1900, Charles Pathé began film production under the Pathé-Frères brand, with Ferdinand Zecca hired
to actually make the films. By 1905, Pathé was the largest film company in the world, a position it
retained until World War I. Léon Gaumont began film production in 1896, with his production supervised
by Alice Guy.[28]
In the United Kingdom, Birt Acres was one of the first to produce films as well as being the first
travelling newsreel reporter. In 1894 he created a 70 mm format and filmed the Henley Royal
Regatta.[29] He went on to make some of Britain's first films with Robert W. Paul with a35
mm movie camera, the Kineopticon, including Incident at Clovelly Cottage, The Oxford and Cambridge
University Boat Race and Rough Sea at Dover.[30][31]
Charles Urban became managing director of the Warwick Trading Company in 1897, where he
specialised in actuality film, including newsfilm of the Anglo-Boer War. In July 1903 he formed his own
company, the Charles Urban Trading Company, moving to London'sWardour Street in 1908, the first film
business to be located in what became the home of the British film industry.[32] Mitchell and Kenyonwas
founded by Sagar Mitchell and James Kenyon in 1897, soon becoming one of the largest film producers
in the United Kingdom. Other early pioneers include James Williamson, G.A. Smith and Cecil Hepworth,

4. who in 1899, began turning out 100 films a year, with his company becoming the largest on the British
scene.
The Babelsberg Studio near Berlin in Germany was the first large-scale film studio in the world, founded
1912, and the forerunner toHollywood with its several establishments of large studios in the early 20th
century.
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