Editing Lost Generation (section)

====Popular culture and mass media====
[[File:Scene from 'Lady of the Lake' (Vitagraph film), 1912.jpg|thumb|Scene from ''Lady of the Lake'' ([[Vitagraph Studios|Vitagraph]] film, 1912)]]

Beginning around the middle of the 19th century, magazines of various types which had previously mainly targeted the few that could afford them found rising popularity among the general public.<ref>{{Cite web |title=History of publishing – The 19th century and the start of mass circulation |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/publishing |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150613230320/https://www.britannica.com/topic/publishing |archive-date=13 June 2015 |access-date=20 May 2021 |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |language=en}}</ref> The latter part of the century not only saw rising popularity for magazines targeted specifically at young boys but the development of a relatively new genre aimed at girls.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Brotner |first=Kirsten |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt2250w7m |title=English Children and Their Magazines, 1751–1945 |date=1988 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0-300-04010-4 |jstor=j.ctt2250w7m |access-date=20 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210520183850/https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt2250w7m?turn_away=true |archive-date=20 May 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref>

A significant milestone was reached in the development of cinema when, in 1895, projected moving images were first shown to a paying audience in Paris. Early films were very short (generally taking the form of newsreels, comedic sketches, and short documentaries). They lacked sound but were accompanied by music, lectures, and a lot of audience participation. A notable film industry had developed by the start of the First World War.<ref>{{Cite web |title=A very short history of cinema |url=https://www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/very-short-history-of-cinema |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210520183852/https://www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/very-short-history-of-cinema |archive-date=20 May 2021 |access-date=20 May 2021 |website=National Science and Media Museum |language=en}}</ref>