> The film industry of today got started because of misfits refusing to toe the line of the anti-celebrity industry bigwigs, it's why hollywood exists where it

> The film industry of today got started because of misfits refusing to toe the line of the anti-celebrity industry bigwigs, it's why hollywood exists where it does (easy to skip over the border to film). The history I've heard didn't involve celebrities... The movie industry began in the East coast. Movie producers began to use a variety of cameras, and Edison's Motion Picture Patents Company tried to stamp that out by sending gangs of thugs to beat people up and destroy equipment on productions that didn't comply. Plus a move to the West Coast meant better light for productions as well as cheaper land and labour (as Hollywood was just farmland at the time).