Cinema: Art and industry.

Abstract

In 1895, in the midst of the second industrial revolution, the cinema began its journey with the Lumière brothers' “cinematographer” patent, an ingenuity that, thanks to a mechanical procedure, allowed not only the capture of “real” images –like Photography did it at the time, but this time adding movement - but also the projection of that continuity of impressed images. There is no doubt that with the object an industry was born, item est, a lucrative activity that exploited the novel technical invention in order to produce marketable goods to offer to the idle bourgeois society of the late s. XIX and early s. XX. Quickly, and as a result of the growing demand of those who had already become “spectators”, the isolated business became an industrial fabric: the business strategy of the businessmen of Lyon, characteristic of an incipient era of globalization, consisted of sending operatives to the most remote places on the planet to distribute French film production and conquer markets, while capturing exotic scenes with which to fuel the ever-increasing demand for entertainment.