America, being at the forefront of film in our current society, has come a long way with regards to the industry of film. Rising from 1894, when the world's first commercial motion picture exhibition was given in New York (Ref library book), America's film industry has become increasingly more advanced and entertaining to countries all over the world. This essay will take a deeper look into the history of the American film industry and investigate the various accomplishments and discoveries that led to the establishment of what we now call "Hollywood." The Beginning of the Film "The motion pictures did not originate as art but as a machine.  (Ref the American Film Industry p27). In the very beginning of the American film industry, a device dubbed the ˜magic lantern' was introduced which consisted of pictures that had been painted on glass were placed in front of a lantern in a dark room and these images would appear on the opposite wall (Ref Bib Book p3). This, some would say, was the experiment that spurred on the desire to begin the search of new ways into viewing pictures, and later on, the search to create the possibility of moving pictures. The "zoopraxiscope , exhibited by Eadweard Muybridge in 1893 began the widespread discussion of the possibility of moving pictures (Ref Bib Book p5). The thought of the illusion of motion first became possible with the invention of the Kinetoscope, created by Thomas Edison and William Dickson in 1889, was used (REF Bib Book p7). A kinetoscope refers to a device that creates the illusion of movement by means of a perforated strip of film showing a sequence of images over a light source and a high-speed shutter (Figure 1)(Reference from some book). Although only able to be viewed by one person at a time and the films only being as long as a minute, this device formed the beginning of the entire basis of the film industry. Branching off from Edison's kinetoscope was the "mutoscope , which was a peep-show cabinet, and Henry Marvin's "biograph , which were both invented in order to create more money making opportunities in the soon-to-be film industry (Ref Bib Book p8). From the kinetoscope came the system of projection, created by C. Francis Jenkins and Thomas Armat in 1893, which allowed more than one individual to view a film at a time (ref from The American film industry). As technology in this area advanced, so did the entire film industry along with its fan base. "Pictures of life in action attracted more attention and produced more entertainment than sounds transmitted through ear-pieces...  (REF Bib Book p8). The Rise of Cinema In order to create more opportunities to gain money, bigger cinema's needed to be created in order to accommodate more people. In this way, a new and profitable entertainment field was discovered by introducing the invention of a projection machine (Ref Bib Book p9). The first two that were invented were the "panopticon" and the "vitascope," both invented in 1895 (Ref Bib Book p10). The panopticon, produced by the Lambda Company, displayed a motion picture of a prize fight all of which lasted five minutes (Ref Bib Book p10). The vitascope, on the other hand, was produced by Thomas Armat and C. Francis Jenkins. As these motion pictures became more widely recognised and advanced, so the ways of viewing these motion pictures needed to become more advanced as well. In order to accommodate the growing amount of people interested in these motion pictures, parlours were joined up with store-rooms of which doors and windows were removed to create a wider entrance (Ref Bib Book p9). This was believed to invite pedestrians to enter and be intrigued by the motion pictures that they viewed, and this worked (Ref Bib Book p9). The entrance would be decorated with circus-like posters and (Figure 2)(Reference). These opened up store-rooms and parlours became known as "show-shops" and later became known as "penny-arcades" due to the fact that penny's was what were used as form of payment for entering the show-shop. Eventually, these penny-arcades became known as "cinemas." LumiÃre, a Parisian and one of the men who had made a peep-show cabinet and camera (like Edison's kinetoscope), called his device the "cinematograph  and from that day forward, "cinema  was used to describe motion pictures. Cinemas were usually placed in upper class urban areas as exhibitors aimed at attracting an affluent middle class audience (Ref the American Film Industry p19). These "cinemas," over time, gradually took new and different forms. As they grew more and more popular, more space was needed in order to accommodate the new crowd. The Dewey Theatre was one of the first major theatres to arise during this period. Converted from a church into a cinema by William Fox, it had the capacity to seat up to a thousand individuals (figure 3)(Ref the American Film Industry p19). Multiple shows would be presented that lasted for two hours, and uniformed u