Hollywood – it’s life and times

At the start of the 20th century, a new city was beginning to grow on some flat land near the sea in southern California; its name was Los Angeles — the name of the old Spanish mission that had been there for many years.At the same time, a new industry was just being born; the cinema. In America, they talked of «motion pictures», but this soon became shortened to «movies».America’s movie industry began life in New York; but by 1910, movie-makers were moving to Los Angeles. In New York, everything was too expensive; workers, land, taxes. Worse than that, it was difficult to make movies in winter, because it was too cold.