How Did the Movie Industry End Up in California?
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3 min readJul 24, 2020
California’s weather was a major driving force for why the movie industry set up shop in sunny California in the early 1900s. What better place to make a movie without contending with cold temperatures or storms with the added benefit of having over 300 days a year of sunshine. But there were a few more things at play that took movie-making from places like Chicago and New York and put them on the West…