Impacts of WW1 On the Shape of The World Cinema Industry

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As a means of documenting combat and influencing public opinion, the First World War had a major influence on the change of cinema. As a result, it had a big impact on the public's view of cinema as a socially acceptable medium, as well as on the evolution of certain film genres, as well as on global trends in movie-going.
Impacts of WW1 On the Shape of The World Cinema Industry
The effects of war on global cinema are explored in this article. Social views about cinema-going were influenced by the belief that films provided people on the home front with a unique opportunity to participate in the war experience from the comfort of their own homes. As censorship of war films was imposed in most belligerent nations, this urge to communicate war atrocities was seen as a crucial way to show allies and neutrals that the supporters and neutrals were on board with the war effort and that it was succeeding. Because of the difficulties in capturing the realism of warfare and the boundaries of obtainable expertise, some film producers used manufactured materials.
Even though movies were not a place where the broadcast was "broken," the war expedited the creation of what would become known as newsreels to respond to this need for knowledge, which also assisted birth of the category of feature-length film. Even while commercial cinema makers released pacifist and patriotic films throughout the time, many of the most popular films of the era avoided the war entirely (Whalan 616). The employment of animation and the strengthening of the "star" system via the use of prominent personalities for patriotic causes were two further advances in film that were accelerated by the war. Wartime economic realities also influenced changes in cinema distribution and production.
Cinema Going before and during the war
Cinema was developed as a prominent medium just before World War I for popular pleasure. As a result, screenings, which had previously taken place in various settings, such as music halls, fairgrounds, and nickelodeons, are now taking place in purpose-built facilities. Year after year, they grew in size and splendor, as well as in number. The almost 3,000-seat Mark Strand Theatre, which opened on Broadway in New York City in October 1914, was the latest and biggest addition to more than 10,000 exhibition halls (George, 6). Over 4 million people could be accommodated in the 5,000 permanent theatres in Great Britain by 1914. Despite Russia's reputation as a backward country, there were 200 cinema theaters in St. Petersburg and Moscow.
As a popular form of entertainment, the cinema was viewed with disdain by traditional arbiters of cultural taste due to its carnival roots and mostly working-class audience. The absurdity of this industry cannot be put on a level with art by anybody except an insane person. Better performance halls and more culturally significant works like the Italian epic Quo Vadis? were among cinema's first steps toward elevating its social standing before World War II. After 1914, these tendencies remained in place. People who might have avoided going to the movies in the hopes of better understanding what was going on were drawn in by the war's progress, as well as oth...