![]() ![]() Eastman Kodak, which owned the patent on raw film stock, was a member of the Trust and thus agreed to only sell stock to other members. He MPPC also established a monopoly on all aspects of filmmaking. The MPPC’s Wikipedia entry sums up well how viciously the company enforced its patents: Together, these firms formed the Motion Picture Patent Company, and exhibited a near monopoly on the production, distribution, and exhibition of all things film. Edison apparently used these patents as a cudgel.īecause Edison held so many patents, and because these patents applied to both the creation of movies and the technology used to run movie theaters, he was able to cajole other patent holders into forming a consortium which he would lead. And during the late 1800s and into the 20th century, he held many of the patents over the technologies needed to create movies. He also had a role in the invention of the Kinetoscope, an early movie camera (although most of the work was done by William Kennedy Dickson, an employee of Edison). He was credited with inventing a bevy of technological devices from the incandescent light bulb to the phonograph. Los Angeles was far away from New Jersey-and Thomas Edison was in New Jersey.Įdison, over the course of his career, held over 1000 patents in the United States. ![]() Oh, and there was one other reason the movie industry made its way west. All the area needed was an industry, and the movie industry made a lot of sense. On top of that, when some of the first Hollywood studios opened around 1915, land was cheap and labor was plentiful. The area has diverse scenery too, with beaches and the ocean as readily available as deserts, forests, and even mountains. The weather is conducive to year-round shoots and rarely has rain in the forecast. The motion picture capital of the United States, if not the world, is Los Angeles, California-specifically, Hollywood. ![]()
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