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How youtube came to be. I thought this would be important in the film industry. Advertising and Illegal video sharing how that has affected the film business

Description of Production. This will help with the business aspect of the Film industry

Business aspect.  It talks about time frames too, how revenue is collected from movie.

This has good info on the business side. "While 'Avatar' is likely a watershed for digital and 3-D technology," they wrote, "it does not tell us that the underlying economics of the film business have changed."

Gives us a really good table of how DVD by mail will increase in the coming years

Directors Steven Spielberg and George Lucas talk about the future 'Implosion' of the film industry

Georges was a french magician and he opened the 1st theater in France in 1896. Other information in this link tells about his biogophy and his movie theater business.

In the last years of the 20th century and the early years of the 21st, the idea of "synergy" dominated the motion-picture industry in the United States, and an unprecedented wave of mergers and acquisitions pursued this ultimately elusive concept.

The Lumière brothers, Auguste and Louis, were sons of well known Lyons based portrait painter Antoine Lumière. They were both technically minded and excelled in science subjects and were sent to Technical School. Antoine, noting the financial rewards of new photographic processes, abandoned his art and set up a business manufacturing and supplying photographic equipment.

People & Events George Eastman George Eastman was born on July 12, 1854, in Waterville, New York. His father, George Washington Eastman, ran a business school where he taught bookkeeping and penmanship, but had to work a second job selling fruit trees and roses, which forced him to split his time between Waterville and Rochester, New York.

This is about present with some info on the most popular DVD distributors

This has good info on how much Netflix brings in.

7 min video about rebox.

Talks about how hard it is to compete with New Mexico and other popular state filming sights cause of Las Vegas's taxes and other things