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Before the Sign: The Early Days of Film
True to the essence of the Wild West, the early Hollywood film makers were there to escape the law. The Thomas Edison studio, based in the east, owned almost all the patents relevant to motion picture production... -
Before the Sign: Frontiers & Hollywood Beginnings
It’s hard to believe, but once upon a time Hollywood was just like all the other wild west frontier towns and the property north of Sunrise Boulevard was useless (so they thought) for anything but cattle.