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The Foundation Starting In 1878, Eadweard Muybridge demonstrated the power of photography to capture motion. In 1894, the worlds first commercial motion picture exhibition was given in New York City, using Thomas Edisons Kinetoscope. In the earliest days of the American film industry, New York played a role, it was in the forefront of sound film development Rise of Hollywood Original Reason Thomas Edison was among the first to produce such a device, the kinetoscope, whose heavy-handed patent enforcement caused early filmmakers to look for alternatives In early 1910 , director D.W. Griffith , started filming on a vacant lot near Georgia Street in downtown Los Angeles ,then to Hollywood, In Old California By 1912, most major film companies had set up production facilities in Southern California near or in Los Angeles because of the locations proximity to Mexico, as well as the regions favorable year-round weather. Jewish immigrants , Samuel Goldwyn , William Fox, Carl Laemmle, Adolph Zukor, Louis B. Mayer, and the Warner Brothers Other moviemakers arrived from Europe after World War I , Ernst Lubitsch Alfred Hitchcock In the late 1920s, sound also became widely used in Hollywood The Jazz Singer Golden Age of Hollywood in the late 1920s to the early 1960s, thousands of movies were issued from the Hollywood studios. MGM, 20th Century Fox , Paramount Pictures, RKO, Warner Bros formula - Western, slapstick comedy, musical, animated cartoon, biopic In 1927 ,the start of the Golden Age , The Jazz Singer was released To Have and Have Not Gone with the Wind Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs The Wizard of Oz, Stagecoach, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Wuthering Heights, Only Angels Have Wings, Ninotchka, and Midnight, Casablanca, Its a Wonderful Life, It Happened One Night, King Kong, Mutiny on the Bounty, Top Hat, City Lights, Red River, The Lady from Shanghai, Rear Window, Some Like It Hot and The Manchurian Candidate. Decline of