UK FILM INDUSTRY

UK Film Industry

UK Film Industry

Introduction

The British Cinema indicates the world of cinema that is part of the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom has had great influence in the development of technological, commercial and artistic cinema history. Despite a series of productions British success, the film industry is characterized by a still open debate about its identity, which includes economic and cultural issues, and the influences of American cinema and European level. While in the early years of film history filmmakers from Britain decisive influence took on the technical and artistic development of the new medium, the following decades were characterized again by identity crises of the film industry and economic crises of the film industry, from an excessive dependence on the U.S. film market stemmed.

British inventors were involved in the late 1880 in the development of film technology and later in the early years of cinema they developed the artistic style of the film medium. After the First World War, foreign films in the UK were popular, leading in the mid-1920 to a stagnation of the British film production. Only through protectionist measures of the state the film industry's survival was assured. So in the early 1930, the British film industry was dominated by cheap wacky quota quickies that met the statutory share of British films in theaters. However, these films also led to an increasing interest in the national production, which subsequently led to more ambitious projects. Especially the films of Alfred Hitchcock and a couple of sophisticated historical films became big successes in the United States.

Discussion

Lumiere brothers were first to introduce the British Cinema in December 1895 however, the development of film began some years before. Based on the experiments, Eadweard Muybridge, in 1872 the photograph of movement was experimented and with the help of the series Photography it was succeeded in 1888 and constructed the Leeds-based Frenchman Louis Le Prince the first viable movie camera. It was independently developed by Le Prince William Friese-Greene and Wordsworth Donisthorpe own cameras to help them in 1889 and 1890 in London filmed street scenes.

Stagnation

The early success showed that the British film industry was internationally competitive in 1905. It was felt that the majority of the films that were produced in the United States could not keep up with the level of British films. However, it evolved towards the end of the decade, the British film artistically. While in other countries more complex films were made, so they stayed in the UK for too long at the already established forms. Developing new film genres as the Western in the U.S. or the slapstick comedy in France by British filmmakers were not adapted, only the serial movies with adventurers such as "Lieutenant Daring" were adopted.

In the mid-1910 the British film industry had first to deal with economic problems. American films were more popular in the UK; at the same time was the country's film lack of new talent and ideas increasingly ...