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Les frères Lumière released the first projection with the Cinematograph, in Paris on 28 December 1895. The French film industry in the late 19th century and early 20th century was the world's most important. Auguste and Louis Lumière invented the cinématographe and their L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat in Paris in 1895 is considered by many historians as the official birth of cinematography. The first feature film to be made was the 1906 Australian silent The Story of the Kelly Gang , an account of the notorious gang led by Ned Kelly that was directed and produced by the Melburnians Dan Barry and Charles Tait. It ran, continuously, for eighty minutes. In the early 1910s, the film industry had fully emerged with D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation . Also in the early 1900s motion picture production companies from New York and New Jersey started moving to California because of the good weather and longer days. Although electric lights existed at that time, non...
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Statistics

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Largest industries by number of film productions edit The following is a list of the top 15 countries by the number of feature films (fiction, animation and documentary) produced, according to the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, unless otherwise noted. Rank Country Films Year 1 India 1,813 2018 2 Nigeria 997 2011 3 China 874 2017 4 Japan 689 2019 5 United States 660 2017 6 South Korea 339 2016 7 France 300 2017 8 United Kingdom 285 2017 9 Spain 241 2017 10 Germany 233 2017 11 Argentina 220 2015 12 Mexico 176 2017 13 Italy 173 2017 14 Brazil 160 2017 15 Turkey 148 2017 Largest markets by box office revenue edit Rank Country Box office revenue (billion US$) Year Box office from national films N/A World 41.7 2018 N/A 1   United States 11.08 2018 88.8 % (2015) 2   China 9.15 2018 62 % (2018) 4   India 2.26 2018 85 % (2015) 3   Japan 2.39 2019 54.4 % (2019) ...
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Modern film industry

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World cinema African cinema Asian cinema East Asian cinema South Asian cinema Southeast Asian cinema West Asian cinema European cinema Latin American cinema North American cinema Oceanian cinema The worldwide theatrical market had a box office of US$38.6 billion in 2016. The top three continents/regions by box office gross were: Asia-Pacific with US$14.9 billion , the U.S. and Canada with US$11.4 billion , and Europe, the Middle East and North Africa with US$9.5 billion . As of 2016update, the largest markets by box office were, in decreasing order, the United States, China, Japan, India, and the United Kingdom. As of 2011update, the countries with the largest number of film productions were India, Nigeria, and the United States. In Europe, significant centers of movie production are Italy, France, Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom. United States edit The cinema of the United States, often generally referred to as Hollywood, has had a profound effect on cinema across t...
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