During the first five years of the 1900s, films were mostly shown by travelling entertainers. They combined a few reels of film with lanternslides and sciopticon slides. These touring entertainers visited exhibitions, market places and occasional arrangements on the countryside, where the same films were shown to an ever-changing audience.

However, the increased supply of films after 1905 made the film programs change instead of the audiences. Already in 1906, Pathé was producing one film per week. The intensive film production at Pathé is one of the premises for the development of established permanent cinemas in Europe and in the U.S. The films being interchangeable created a demand for seeing more pictures and stories on the screens, i.e. a market of film consumers.

Pathé was a modern media company manufacturing film projectors and gramophones. In the film factory in Vincennes outside Paris, film was produced like on an assembly line. The films were distributed globally and the same Pathé films could be seen in Stockholm and Berlin, as well as in New York and Los Angeles.