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The Chicago film industry is a central hub for motion picture production and exhibition that was established before Hollywood became the undisputed capital of film making. In the early 1900s, Chicago boasted the greatest number of production companies and filmmakers. [1] .
Aug 3, 2012 · Early Chicago Film History. A surprising piece of history that the average Chicago movie-goer may not know is that before Hollywood, the Chicago film industry was hugely important. Back in the 1900s, it wasn’t easy to make a motion picture short or feature film.
Chicago was the original home of the largest theater chain in the studio era (1919–1952), the Balaban and Katz chain, started by two West Side exhibitors. Obtaining expansion capital in 1915 from Chicagoans in the retailing and taxi businesses, Balaban and Katz built increasingly large and elaborate “ movie palaces ” in which they showed ...
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Feb 19, 2015 · PUBLISHED: February 19, 2015 at 8:55 a.m. | UPDATED: May 9, 2019 at 10:12 p.m. “Hooray for Chicago” does not have the same zip as “Hooray for Hollywood,” but at the turn of the 20th century,...
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Movie Theaters in Chicago, 1926, 1937 and 2002. The cinema came into its own as a form of entertainment during the first two decades of the twentieth century, and movies took over and expanded the number of theaters downtown. As films came to be mass produced for screening, however, they were soon seen all over the city.
Although Chicago’s 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition was home to the world’s first movie screening, the storied history of the Chicago film industry officially dates back to the early 1900s. At that time, Chicago was a world leader in the rental of moving picture films and general patronage of motion pictures.
Film Studies Center. The Film Studies Center serves as the support facility and research center for the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago. It provides an ideal site for students and faculty to explore film and other media and plays a vital role in fostering serious interdisciplinary film scholarship.
