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In 1916, he helped form a New York talent agency called Metro Pictures Corporation. (p. 36)      This book has ten chapters covering how Hollywood was founded and some fun facts about the best known film industry.      Louis B. Mayer owned a large number of movie theaters in New England. He also owned a company which rented films to movie theatres. To make a buck, firstly, he bought the rights to rent out The Birth of a Nation, which he had not seen although he was certain it would be a moneymaker. Secondly, he helped establish a NY talent agency named Metro Pictures Corporation. Secondly, he signed up writers, directors, and actors to deal with new films which he would produce. Thirdly, he moved his company, renamed MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) to Southern California, where he was able to set up a complete studio. On the back lot by the studio were big sets for filming scenes outdoors. As a result of his dedicated efforts at filmmaking, MGM began churning out...

Movies were a new thing and just starting to become popular. (p. 22)      This book has ten chapters covering how Hollywood was founded and some fun facts about the best known film industry.      There was a great migration to Los Angeles in the early 1900s, and some filmmakers in the East wanted to move there. At that time, an action-packed thriller film titled The Great Train Robbery of 1903 was released, and it was a landmark although it lasted for only 12 minutes. Some directors in New York and New Jersey were after a better spacious place for filming where there was no weather-related problem so that filmmakers could do a lot of filming outdoors. No other place could not be epitomized except for Los Angeles. The weather was great even in winter, and LA had various kinds of scenery: mountains, canyons, deserts, The Pacific Ocean. In 1877, Thomas Edison, one of the most famous inventors, invented the phonograph. By the late 1880s, he was inventing a cam...