... was instrumental in attracting increasingly larger audiences to film-viewing venues Individual viewers had initially watched moving pictures in film houses such as the Holland Brothers’ Kinetoscope... xviii INTRODUCTION Philip C DiMare The second half of the nineteenth century was marked by the explosive growth of American industry, with the railroad leading the way in defining how this industrial... xix Introduction Industrialization and the Rise of American Cinema Significantly, America’s entry into world cinema was intimately connected to the industrial expansion that occurred during the