How did Hollywood become what it is today?

Khaled Sayed
3 min readJul 28, 2022
William Kennedy Laurie Dickson

In the early 1900s, New York was the hub for movie production, filming, and distribution. How did Hollywood, all the way in California, grow into the Hollywood we know today? Thomas Edison made the whole thing possible! The movie camera was invented by William Dixon in 1891 and was patented by Thomas Edison in 1892.

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