While California was already starting to take on movie people in 1910, Americans saw the start as someting much more exotic than that. Well look around at tht California on this episode.

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The early movies were moving out of the studios and into the outlying areas. This includes the development of westerns, movies had in foregn lands, and comapnies starting to eye California as a place to work.

When President Theodore Roosevelt retired from the Presidency, he immediately traveled to Africa to hunt big game in the name of the Smithsonian Institute. In the wake of this expedition, movies were made both with his permission and without it.

In the middle of the Trust War, and the indie rebellion, The French eye the American market and start establishing branch companies in the US.

Theater operator Roxy Rothephal started a drive to create a better movie watching experience by promoting better looking and larger movie theaters with the kind of amenities found in theater and high class department stores.

The moralist attitudes of Victorians was starting to focus its attention on the movies, and the Trust was responding in kind.

As the movie companies become interested in making western themed movies, a shift takes place as some ofthe companies start making westerns in the west.

The Edison Company was one of the few early movie companies to leave some historical record about how it made movies. We'll take a bit of a look at the work process.