Media Timeline
Development of the media industry: Films In 1936 film production reached an all- time high. It was known as the ‘golden age’ of British cinema within the 1940s examples of the films with pictures. In 2009 British films grossed around $2 billion worldwide and achieved a market share of around 7% globally and 17% in the UK. In 2012 the UK box-office takings totalled £1.1 billion with 172.5 million admissions. 1888- First movie was shot in Leeds by Louis Le Prince. It was developed on celluloid film in Hyde Park, London in 1889 by the British inventor William Friese Greene. Frank Mottershaw is on the left In 1903 Frank Mottershaw produced the film ‘A Daring Daylight Robbery’, which subsequently launched the chase genre. In 1911 the Ideal Film Company was founded in Soho, London. The company distributed almost 400 films by 1934, and producing 80. In 1913 the sta...