The Film Industry has existed since the late 1800s. And in that time we have made unbelieveable advances in technology and the methods we use to tell stories through film. Film has progressed from a Sideshow Trick to the Artform of the 20th Century. Everyone has a favourite film, but people forget that Films are a much broader and further-reaching industry, than just the latest Hollywood Blockbuster. European & Asian Cinema is regarded as the best in the world. Countiries like France, China, Sweden, Japan, Italy, India and Germany. New cinema has begun to occur in places like Africa, South America, The Middle-East and smaller Asian countries like Indonesia, The Philipines and Thailand.

So to start off with; American Cinema. The most popular, most valueable and most prolific cinema on Earth. the American Cinema we now know really only started in 1912 when most major film companies were set up in Southern California and in particular a district in Los Angeles known as Hollywood.

The World Famous "Hollywood Sign" on Mount Lee in the Hollywood Hills.