A century of film has led us to the 1990s, with its rapid technological development, and movie theaters have still not been vanquished by television. They are still the first stop for the movie industry when it sells its products. Nearly all motion pictures appear on the market in video-tape and laser-disc form only after they have finished being shown in theaters.
電影百年到了科技快速發展的九○年代，也沒有被電視機打敗，它仍然是電影工業銷售其產品的第一站，幾乎所有影片，都是在電影院放映後，才以錄影帶、影碟的形式在市場出現。