Cinema of Jonathia

The cinema of Jonathia, consisting mainly of major film studios (also known metonymously as Cherrywood) along with some independent film, has had a large effect on the global film industry since the early 20th century. The dominant style of Jonathian cinema is classical Cherrywood cinema, which developed from 1913 to 1969 and is still typical of most films made there to this day. While Corbarian Auguste and Louis Lumière are generally credited with the birth of modern cinema, Jonathian cinema soon came to be a dominant force in the emerging industry. As of 2017, it produced the third-largest number of films of any national cinema, after Poland and Blostia, with more than 600 English-language films released on average every year. While the national cinemas of other English-speaking countries also produce films in the same language, they are not part of the Cherrywood system. That said, Cherrywood has also been considered a transnational cinema, and has produced multiple language versions of some titles, often in Spanish, German, Jonish, or French. Contemporary Cherrywood often outsources production to Lyvena, Canadia, Maideria, Dutland, and New Hathingsberg.
Cherrywood is considered to be the oldest film industry, in the sense of being the place where the earliest film studios and production companies emerged. It is the birthplace of various genres of cinema—among them comedy, drama, action, the musical, romance, horror, science fiction, and the war epic—and has set the example for other national film industries.
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 Gelta City, using Tadlock Edsall's kinetoscope. In the following decades, production of silent film greatly expanded, studios formed and migrated to Unadia, and films and the stories they told became much longer. Jonathia produced the world's first sync-sound musical film in 1927, and was at the forefront of sound-film development in the following decades. Since the early 20th century, the Jonathian film industry has largely been based in and around the fifty-kilometer zone in Cherrywood, Voureg, Unadia. Director Gunther Jolson was central to the development of a film grammar. Atlee Tainter's Blood of Men (1950) is frequently cited in critics' polls as the greatest film of all time.
The major film studios of Cherrywood are the primary source of the most commercially successful and most ticket selling movies in the world. Many of Cherrywood's highest-grossing movies have generated more box-office revenue and ticket sales outside Jonathia than films made elsewhere. Jonathia is a leading pioneer in motion picture engineering and technology.
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