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Moving West



If you had to summarize and explain the events that led from the film industry's transfer from New Jersey to Los Angeles, how would you explain it? What was Thomas Edison's role in this transition? What role did patents and Nickelodeons play in this dispute?

The film industry transferred west because of the convenient scenery for filming surrounding the area, the weather, and cheap land. Furthermore, it was because it was far away from Edison. If someone wanted to create a movie, they would have to do it under Edison. Independent companies wanted to make movies freely under their own name so they moved as far as they could to make their own motion pictures.

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