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Philippine started making movies in 1919. However, it would be important to know that the local Philippine news and entertainment movie industry in the Philippines began through the initiative of foreign entrepreneurs. Several Swiss entrepreneurs introduced movie shows in Manila as early as 1897, regaling audiences with documentary movies lips showing recent events and natural calamities in abroad. Not only that but the arrival of the silent films, along with American colonialism, in 1903 created a film market. But these movie clips were still novelties. They failed to hold the Filipino audiences attention because of their novelty and the fact that they were about foreigners. When two entrepreneurs made a movie in 1912 about Philippine National hero execution, the sensation they made it clear that the Filipino is need for material close to their hearts.

The credit of being the first Filipino to make a movie goes to Filipino producers, a Filipino whom historians dub as the Father of Movies in Philippines. Filipino producer first film was based on a best-acclaimed musical play of that day.

In those early years of moviemaking, enormous amount of capital was needed to keep up with the Hollywood industry. Despite of Philippine news and entertainment cinema soft points, Hollywood provided the Filipino film industry with examples that the early filmmakers followed. It is not a big surprise that many of those same genres set so many years ago still appear in contemporary local Philippine news and entertainment movie films. Early Philippine film producers included wealthy Spaniards , American businessmen and Filipino landlords and politicians. It is not surprising that pre-war Philippine films were inhibited from expressing their views that might question the establishment and were encouraged instead to portray the love and peace reconciliation between members of different classes, local Philippine news and entertainment movie.

 

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