Film is a medium that might have been especially made for America, a vast country which, by the beginning of the twentieth century, had a large (67) population, many of whom could (68) speak English. These people would have had (69) use for theater, (70) they lived within easy distance of one, or (71) most of the books they could buy (72) they did not have enough English. But the movies--the silent movies—these they could all understand, so (73) America had more than any European country was a huge (74) audience, a large proportion of them pretty un educated. And what these people wanted were (75) stories in which, (76) the fact they couldn’t understand the captions, the action (77) all. In feeding the growing demand for (78) entertainment, America was (79) helped by the First World War. Between 1914 and 1918 the making of films was not exactly high on the list of any European country’s priorities. Films (80) be made but not to the same extent as before, and to fill the gap in foreign (81) , America had to (82) its own production. By the end of the decade, (83) Hollywood now firmly established (84) the center of the industry, America was well (85) its way to (86) the world market.