<P> Russia began its film industry in 1908 with Pathé shooting some fiction subjects there, and then the creation of real Russian film companies by Aleksandr Drankov and Aleksandr Khanzhonkov . The Khanzhonkov company quickly became much the largest Russian film company, and remained so until 1918 . </P> <P> In Germany, Oskar Messter had been involved in film - making from 1896, but did not make a significant number of films per year till 1910 . When the worldwide film boom started, he, and the few other people in the German film business, continued to sell prints of their own films outright, which put them at a disadvantage . It was only when Paul Davidson, the owner of a chain of cinemas, brought Asta Nielsen and Urban Gad to Germany from Denmark in 1911, and set up a production company, Projektions - AG "Union" (PAGU), for them, that a change - over to renting prints began . Messter replied with a series of longer films starring Henny Porten, but although these did well in the German - speaking world, they were not particularly successful internationally, unlike the Asta Nielsen films . Another of the growing German film producers just before World War I was the German branch of the French Éclair company, Deutsche Éclair . This was expropriated by the German government, and turned into DECLA when the war started . But altogether, German producers only had a minor part of the German market in 1914 . </P> <P> Overall, from about 1910, American films had the largest share of the market in all European countries except France, and even in France, the American films had just pushed the local production out of first place on the eve of World War I . So even if the war had not happened, American films may have become dominant worldwide . Although the war made things much worse for European producers, the technical qualities of American films made them increasingly attractive to audiences everywhere . </P> <P> New film techniques that were introduced in this period include the use of artificial lighting, fire effects and Low - key lighting (i.e. lighting in which most of the frame is dark) for enhanced atmosphere during sinister scenes . </P>

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