page_title: 1910s in film
section_title: Events
hierarchical_section_title: 1910s in film / Events
caption_attribution_description: English: Movie studios in the Hollywood area from the air, as it appeared in 1922. The street near the bottom of the photograph is Melrose. Gower is the intersecting street which goes up to the left. In this corner, Pat Powers, Robertson-Cole, the Film Booking Office and RKO were located. To the right of the photograph near Van Ness, Brunton, United Studio, Famous Players and Paramount are visible. Darmour Studio is in the background, above the Hollywood Cemetary, near Santa Monica Blvd.
context_page_description: The decade of the 1910s in film involved some significant films.
context_section_description: The 1910s saw the origins of Hollywood as the centre of the American film industry relocated from New York to California. By 1912, major motion-picture companies had set up production near or in Los Angeles. In the early 1900s, most motion picture patents were held by Thomas Edison's Motion Picture Patents Company in New Jersey, and filmmakers were often sued to stop their productions. To escape this, filmmakers began moving out west, where Edison's patents could not be enforced. Also, the weather was ideal and there was quick access to various settings. Los Angeles became the capital of the film industry.
  During the First World War the film industries of Europe were devastated, and Hollywood replaced the French and Italian firms as the most popular film makers in the world.
caption: Hollywood movie studios, 1922
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