However, Edison also entered the field of movies, and relied on movies to become the envy of people who can make money by lying down.
when did movies first appear?
According to the records, the earliest film prototype came from 1888. The Frenchman Louis Prince used the "visual persistence principle" to shoot two dynamic videos with a camera and paper film, which were only one or two seconds long, and combined the shooting and projection to show it.
Later, Edison entered the film field. And quickly applied for 16 patents, a film from production, distribution to screening must go through Edison's film patent company. Why did Edison spend so much effort to study film patents?
It turns out that since 195, cinemas have blossomed everywhere in the United States. A movie ticket is not expensive, only five cents, so watching movies has become a popular entertainment. Five years later, the United States can produce more than 4 movies every year, and 36 million people rush into the cinema every week.
think about it, there are $1.8 million a week. What was this concept at that time? You know, Ford's best-selling Model T car at that time was only $26, and Ford had to sell more than 6,9 cars to catch up with the movie industry's income for a week. It can be seen that from the beginning, film is a good business with a wide audience and a large flow of water.
As soon as Edison applied for a patent, all the people who made and showed movies had to pay him a patent fee according to the requirements of the Patent Law, so he became the owner of lying down and collecting money.
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