Raymondo, In 1893, Thomas Edison built the first movie studio in the United States when he constructed the Black Maria, a tarpaper-covered structure near his laboratories in West Orange, New Jersey, and asked circus, vaudeville, and dramatic actors to perform for the camera. He distributed these movies at vaudeville theaters, penny arcades, wax museums, and fairgrounds. Other studio operations followed in New Jersey, New York City, and Chicago.
Some of the Early movie producers moved west to Southern California to escape Edison's Motion Picture Patents Company which controlled almost all the patents relevant to movie production at the time.
The vast majority of these early movie pioneers were Jewish and their ‘control’ of the motion picture business somewhat continues on to this very day.
There have been a good number of very interesting novels about the founding of the motion picture business but relatively few great motion pictures about the founders of the Hollywood Motion Picture Studios
Can you name any famous Hollywood personalities who can trace their family lineage back to the days when the first movies were made in So Cal?
ANd the Jewish people have been good story tellers since the beginning of time.
BTW, I don’t know who made THE HUNGER GAMES, but I hated it and fell asleep a number of times while doing my best to pay attention.
It must have been an Irish guy.
