The cinema has been around for 116 long years. As it has developed over time, each new technological advancement has helped to create a new type of cinema to keep the viewers involved and interested. Each new development has wowed audiences for a little while, then makes them want a more realistic picture and has been a challenge for movie makers to add more and more realistic elements. The first color movie came out in 1929, just 34 years after the first movie first came out and then 20 years later, the first 3D movie was released. The length in time between these new developments in cinema really explains the dependence of new technology to please audiences.
Today, cinema is different because of all of the new technologies that make it easy to find movies on the internet. Websites such as "YouTube," "Netflix," and other illegal sites that post movies online make it easy to watch movies from home without having to spend the extra money at the movie theater. Unfortunately, this is a setback for cinemas because people like to watch movies in the convenience of their own home. I do not specifically believe that it is killing Hollywood because without any movies, audiences would get bored with the same movies that they could find online. I do believe that it is starting a new wave in how movies will be viewed for the first time though. I'm not exactly sure how Hollywood will do it or charge people, but I believe that if they lose enough money with the dip in sales at the box office, they will take their movies to the World Wide Web for first time viewings.
Stephen Stockwell, 'Week 6 - From the Big Screen to the Very Small,' via Blackboard Academic Suite: Griffith University, viewed September 2, 2011, https://learning.secure.griffith.edu.au/webapps/blackboard/content/listContent.jsp?course_id=_101249_1&content_id=_1804853_1
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