Chanan, Michael. "Economic Conditions of Early Cinema." Early Cinema: Space, France, Narrative. London, 1990 by British Film Institute.

The author analyzes the economical conditions of the early cinema as a whole. He explains that staring in 1906 until the time of WWI, early cinema begins to reveal that the domination for the distribution over both exhibition and production began when film rental devices where created. This scholarly article summarizes the economic conditions of early film production as follows: the manufactures of equipment were favoured because they sold cameras to a booming industry of filmmakers. With this economic increase, the manufactures were able to introduce mass production and start to stock film. The author, Michael Chanan, attributes the aesthetic development of cinema to the distributor's lead or their agreement.

It is vital, in my opinion, to analyze economic events together with cultural events such as the Early Cinema. The article also illustrated new ideas in the early cinema, such as the film rental and film reproduction. As Michael Chanan insinuates, it is possible that many of the aesthetic development that underwent in the early Japanese cinema were profit oriented. Mr. Chanan's argument inspires me to search for what went behind the directors and companies decision making. Were they concerned about emulating the culture values of the West or were they interesting in emulating the profits previously seen in the United States and France, for instance?