THE PIONEER ERA
1927–1940
With American filmmakers starting their organized production, silent movies became very popular in both US and Europe. Film started being longer, slightly edited, they used minimal sound effects and musical tracks (no dialogue yet), and emphasis on professional- made narrative drama, romances and comedies. One of the largest stars from this period of film industry was phenomenal Charlie Chaplin.
Powered by the rising public interest, large profit margins and sudden wave of technical inventions, industry of motion pictures begun spreading its influence since mid-1880s. Silent movies of those initial years were filmed in one shot, fixed nonmoving camera, often with one person that was sometimes helped by few assistants, and by the end they expanded to the length of several minutes by using the production of professional companies.
Pioneers of commercial film American Mutoscope Company which used one seated peep-show machines for reproduction, traveling showman in tent theaters showed small reels of movies across entire Europe and US, and in 1905 first dedicated theatre “The Nickelodeon” was formed in 1905 Pittsburg. Quickly after that, other American and European cities followed that trend and created their own theaters that showed 30 minutes presentation that consisted from several shorter films.
