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Before there was an American film industry, back when Hollywood was just a little village, there was this. The pre-Hollywood era of American cinema.
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Unfortunately, Edison was also using his patents to try and monopolize the film industry. In 1908, he and several other early studios created the Motion Picture Patents Company to shut out smaller filmmakers. The MPCC would use Edison's patents to seize the cameras of filmmakers who had not paid the patent fee. While the MPPC was dissolved in an antitrust ruling in 1915 (an act that, combined with the loss of European markets during [[World War I]], forced Edison to sell his studio), it had already caused countless filmmakers to pack up and head out west to shoot their movies, hoping to escape Edison's reach. Many of them headed to places like [[The Windy City|Chicago]], Florida and Cuba, but one of the most popular destinations was the little town of Hollywood, California...
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