> If film was invented in France, why didn't France become the film hub of the world, then, instead of Los Angeles? The US wasn't disrupted by WWII nearly as m

> If film was invented in France, why didn't France become the film hub of the world, then, instead of Los Angeles? The US wasn't disrupted by WWII nearly as much as France. The US also has a larger domestic monolingual market, so there's more potential for network effects. By the way, this is true even today. The EU is a larger unified market than the US, but linguistic divisions are still a significant barrier.