The History of the Movie Industry

The Americanize the Immigrants movement was unsuccessful in creating laws to govern films, but their arguments clearly had an impact on people like Edison. A war started to brew in the nascent motion picture industry and on one side were peoplelike Edison. And I'm going to read you a quote from a moving picture world, which is like one of the first industry trade magazines. The critic wrote it in 1910, and he gave a horrified description of a movie theater. He said: "I would have been more comfortable on board a cattle train than where I sat"