<Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> The cinema of the United States, often metonymously referred to as Hollywood, has had a profound effect on cinema across the world since the early 20th century . The dominant style of American cinema is Classical Hollywood Cinema, which developed from 1917 - 1960 and characterizes most films to this day . While Auguste and Louis Lumière are generally credited with the birth of modern cinema, it is American cinema that soon became the most dominant force in an emerging industry . Since the 1920s, the American film industry has grossed more money every year than that of any other country . </P> <P> In 1878, Eadweard Muybridge demonstrated the power of photography to capture motion . In 1894, the world's first commercial motion picture exhibition was given in New York City, using Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope . The United States was in the forefront of sound film development in the following decades . Since the early 20th century, the U.S. film industry has largely been based in and around Hollywood, Los Angeles, California . Picture City, Florida was also a planned site for a movie picture production center in the 1920s, but due to the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane, the idea collapsed and Picture City returned to its original name of Hobe Sound . Director D.W. Griffith was central to the development of film grammar . Orson Welles's Citizen Kane (1941) is frequently cited in critics' polls as the greatest film of all time . </P>

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