How Thomas Edison (Accidentally) Created Hollywood
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Next time you look at LA's famous "Hollywood" sign, you can thank Thomas Edison!
Edison-owned Motion Picture Patents Company dominated the movie industry way before anyone even heard of Hollywood. In this video, we'll show you how Edison's monopolistic practices forced the then aspiring moviemakers to migrate from the East Coast to LA, where land was cheap (and Mexico was nearby)!
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*Ofcourse Edison was never into film making, he was into the technological side of things* Stealing others' patents you mean
@CourtneMarland
5 жыл бұрын
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@Rayan2Musikahan
2 жыл бұрын
I love how they try to save his face
@olivierpreziosa1707
Жыл бұрын
Patenting is also stealing, from the entire humanity. Actually, private property is just stealing and we’ll eventually switch to a more equal way of organizing ourself.
Thomas Edison: the first Patent Troll
@CourtneMarland
5 жыл бұрын
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@flatbushmassachusetts8518
Жыл бұрын
And he pushed the electric chair by using it on dogs and cats to show it worked
@flatbushmassachusetts8518
Жыл бұрын
Bad man
@hau5manmusic
Жыл бұрын
and a thief
When you accidentally create an entire movie industry _Edison was a Mad Lad_
@MBangre
5 жыл бұрын
Tesla > Edison
@imiy
4 жыл бұрын
He didn't create the industry.
He also helped create General Electric too!
@Vespula
5 жыл бұрын
Justin Y. Also helped start Tesla’s career
@sourcethunderlight2723
5 жыл бұрын
Wait, he's the same person?! Woah.
@earthstar393
5 жыл бұрын
Why are you always in the comments?
@Night-db2oh
5 жыл бұрын
Justin y is omnipresent
@jag3596
5 жыл бұрын
7/10 Wow. Sharing facts, huh? Well, I can't really critique it.
Universal, Paramount , 20th Century Fox , Warner Bros Respect
For anyone really confused: nickelodeon (nĭkˌə-lōˈdē-ən) n. An early movie theater charging an admission price of five cents. So it is not only the kids tv channel apparently
@WG55
5 жыл бұрын
🎶 Put another nickel in In the nickelodeon. All I want is having you And music, music, music. 🎶
@justaguywithnoface6370
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks cuz i definitely was
@columbus8myhw
5 жыл бұрын
And it rhymed with "in", not "on"…
@JoaoSilva22222
4 жыл бұрын
NICKEL + ODEON
I am learning about the creation of Classical Hollywood Cinema and the studio system of the early 1900's to the 60's, and I was having a hard time understanding the bridge between the MPPC and the development of the major motion picture studios and their monopoly. This video helped me out a lot! Thank you!
As often as Edison comes up in the usual Edison vs Tesla talks, this has never been mentioned. Very interesting, cool video!
@CourtneMarland
5 жыл бұрын
Aldin Hey, I love that you take the time to comment. I just started up on my channel again. Made a goal to post daily and I hope you could possibly keep me accountable accountable, KZread doesn’t help you grow until 1K. Maybe I could also teach you something lol 😉
Thank you! I've been looking for a short video to show my students that explain this period.
I feel like Skillshare sponsors every youtuber
Great video! The impact of Edison on American history can never be understated. I understand that the first World War 1 impacted film production in Europe but are their any other reasons European feature length films were not able to compete with Hollywood in the United States after the war? Europe produced some fine film makers during the 1920s such as Fritz Lang.
The quality of this video is incredible!! Keep it up guys
Your videos are exhilarating!... Has a class to it!!... Keep it coming man!
@CourtneMarland
5 жыл бұрын
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Harvey Henderson Wilcox owned a ranch west of the city of los angeles, which his wife Daeida named hollywood, and that they founded together in 1887. Hollywood become the center of the movie industry of the United States in the early 1910s.
Great video! Loved the editing..btw what software do u use to make these type of videos? It would be helpful..
I always wonder what Europe would look like if the world wars never happened.
@wakeup-9335
5 жыл бұрын
No war = No V2 = No space invasion No war = No volkswagen + No Porsche + No BMW... No war = No Fanta No war = No Adidas ....................
@idontknowman420
5 жыл бұрын
@@wakeup-9335 Porsche BMW and Adidas would exist
@ville7213
5 жыл бұрын
@@wakeup-9335 Dumbest argument I have heard. Technological innovation happens without war, its just that the inventions would likely come at different times. The man behind the V2 and other rocket enthusiasts began working on it before the war.
@cardcode8345
5 жыл бұрын
Sn1gel America won’t be a super power colonies and cheap labor still exist . Discrimination too
@JK-gu3tl
5 жыл бұрын
richer?
Thomas Edison, the real SOB of all times.
@flatbushmassachusetts8518
Жыл бұрын
He was a big supporter of the electric chair 🪑 using dogs and cats to show it worked…!evil sob 🫥
Edison was actually messed up to be honest. He opposed everything and everyone using the most unfair tactics. I’m glad he lost😄; so we could enjoy good movies and alternating current.
Love your Videos Business casual
Ah, 3:39 just at the right side of the hat man , you can see Felix
Very good infomations! So i 've just sent my Vietnamese translation for this video. Thanks for your work!
really good work here
Another great reason to hate Edison
@CourtneMarland
5 жыл бұрын
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@UnipornFrumm
3 жыл бұрын
You watch this video because of edison
@adryry2695
2 жыл бұрын
True!
Nice to know that Paris was the center of the movie industry in the begining. I don't think they will ever regain that position with Hollywood being number 1 and Bollywood number 2. Thomas Edison East coast movie monopoly help create Hollywood.
Very informative..
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@JackChickenwing
5 жыл бұрын
mans gotta eat
Edison vs. Tesla video? I'd love to see that!
Hey! Which is the music you used in your into and ending? I have heard it before, but I didn't get a chance to figure out its name.
Upload Every week please.Thanks :)
Old Filmmakers: Now you've become the very thing you swore to destory.
FELIX!!!!!!!!!!!!! 3:40 bottom right!
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5 жыл бұрын
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First cat video in history, that's f awesome..!
Hollywood, the undisputed capital of the movie industry" Atlanta would like a word. Huge amounts of money and productions from big studios like Marvel/Disney has helped explode the industry in Atlanta. I think Hollywood has already been de-throned in terms of total production budgets/revenues.
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5 жыл бұрын
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thank you
Could you make a video about the Royal Dutch Shell?
BC, would you please make a video about the Dell computer corporation? I’d like to learn the history of Dell because it seems to be the most popular Windows PC used commercially. I can’t remember working anywhere that wasn’t using Dell computers for the business. How did Dell get so big and popular? Video, please! 😃
Hope you could provide Chinese subtitle as well in the future
This is very constructive, never knew that
@CourtneMarland
5 жыл бұрын
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GE video
I would like you to make a video on Research in Motion LTD now BlackBerry LTD soon. You do a great job. Keep it up. Thanks.
Can you Make history of IKEA
Now i know why whole Hollywood is against the wall.
By January 1879, at his laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey, Edison had built his first high resistance, incandescent electric light. It worked by passing electricity through a thin platinum filament in the glass vacuum bulb, which delayed the filament from melting. Still, the lamp only burned for a few short hours.
No. Edison forming the Trust did not "create Hollywood". Vitagraph was part of the MPCC and they had a studio in Santa Monica in 1911 so it would make no sense for non-MPCC studios to "run away from Edison" by setting up shop 5 miles away in Hollywood. There was film production in Fort Lee NJ (1900+), Jacksonville FL (1908), Santa Monica (1911) and many other US cities. It finally consolidated near Sunset and Gower starting in 1911 because 1) the train to NY was easy to get to and brought everything you needed, 2) Westerns were popular and Florida/NJ don't look western, 3) Los Angeles was much cheaper than Florida, and 4) existing studios from the NY area quickly consolidated production to as few locations as possible. You need talent, film stock and gear and Los Angeles became the place outside of NY where you could get all of those. Once it reached critical mass it grew and it didn't make $$$ sense to shoot anywhere else until the mid-1970s or so. Universal Pictures began in Chicago. Paramount in NYC and Fox in Fort Lee, NJ -- again not hiding from Edison/Trust. Production moved to L.A. but most of the money men stayed in the East. You could defy Edison and the Trust but you could not hide or escape from them. There is little evidence that anyone expected to hide from Edison.
@theuniversalguy
Жыл бұрын
I agree he did not create holly
Can you make a video about J.P. Morgan
What about the old Dutch aircraft company called "Fokker"? I think that would be a interesting video
@CourtneMarland
5 жыл бұрын
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Guys Edison perfected the lightbulb using his funding
Please start your videos again!!
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4:20 WHAT IS THAT US MAP LOL LOOK AT FLORIDA LOOK AT THIS DUDE XD
@MC-LIL-ICE
5 жыл бұрын
hahahahahha
please do a video on Andrew Carnegie
so anti-patent pirates fled from the monopoly of Edison, look at them now. the irony
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5 жыл бұрын
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Try to give more content in vids please
Damn I am here too early. Edison.... what a character.
He created Hollywood by creating the projector so films could actually be made!
@CourtneMarland
5 жыл бұрын
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Thomas Edison was a monster.
Hallywood
A French guy invented it then he disappeared and his family weren't allowed to patent the camera for 7 years. By then Edison patened his camera.
sir can you do vedio on (Jessie livermore) the man who sold America short in 1929 crash
NICOLA TESLA was the greatest genius ever walk on earth.
Ahh ok. I always thought LA became the center of the filming industry because of the natural light conditions in that part of the country.
Yea, he's also a lion and he has the Noble Phantasm of W.F.D World Faith Domination
No
@caleb5826
5 жыл бұрын
Zukic Zukic yes
@kole1678
5 жыл бұрын
maybe
@seanlemar1268
5 жыл бұрын
@@kole1678 aaaaah!you ruined it😂
@zukiczukic4435
5 жыл бұрын
@@caleb5826 Hell no
Thomas Edison also founded GE.
@NinaCortex2922
4 жыл бұрын
And GE has been owned Universal Studios also!
Patent system should be abolished. All should be given open hand today.
Hallywood !!!!!!
Tomorrow, Feb 11 is his birthday..
@bobreesjr9501
5 жыл бұрын
I've been to the Edison Ford Museum in Fort Myers, FL back in July 2015. I am also an inventor with patents issued to me.
This video makes Thomas Edison look like a villain lol
@juanshaftpatel7488
5 жыл бұрын
jews
Too short :(
No matter how great ppl describe Thomas Edison, I cannot accept what he done to Nikola Tesla. Edison is a jerk!!!
A bird in the hand is worth 2 in the bush.
whats the difference between a nickelodeon and a cinema?
@cylontoaster7660
5 жыл бұрын
If you ever go to Disneyland/Disneyworld, you can see what a Nickelodeon was like. The best way to describe it is like an arcade, except instead of video games, the machines are basically little self-contained movie projectors. You would insert some money into the machine and watch a mini-movie/short. Basically it was the original KZread...lots of small clips!
@Gamblebeats
5 жыл бұрын
@@cylontoaster7660 thank you for the answer!
It annoys me every time he has Hallywood!
Mr mobile voice 🤓
@5:40 that man thicc
I hate Hollywood
Documentary I would love to see who was more of a prick boss? Edison or Ford or Disney
Fun fact Thomas was a mexican-american.
Anime Catgirl: 3:40
@shadowhaziq4326
5 жыл бұрын
Kaylee Rinehart felix 😏
Backround music junked video
How to make videos like you
There is Mexican ppl that claim he was Mexican.
Thomas" The thief" edision.
@apollocobain8363
3 жыл бұрын
"Inventing is 10% inspiration (from Tesla), 90% litigation." -TA Edison
Video about how google accidentally created porn 🤑🤜🏿
this video is a real prove why you should become Thomas Edison, and not Nikola Tesla even Elon Musk himself admire Thomas Edison, Tesla name is just because of the engine of the car nothing more please dude, look at reality, Nikola Tesla is just a lonely poor old man who died alone his apartment room, he's seriously trying to build a tower for ambitious project and it was a failure, while Edison *accidentally* build Hollywood
*Edison - the patent man*
Did he also accidentally steal patent ideas?
No offense to anyone who idolizes Edison but Tesla was still a much better and greater genius. In fact anyone who still thinks Edison was better than Tesla clearly needs a lobotomy because they clearly have something badly wrong with their brain. Most of the love for Edison and hate for Tesla stems from the fact that Edison was an American and Tesla was a foreigner from Eastern Europe. That's just xenophobia and blind nationalism at it's worst. I stand by my support for Tesla regardless of what anyone else says. So anybody who has a problem with this comment of mine feel free to leave hateful trolling replies. You'll just be wasting your time because you will NEVER change my mind. God bless Nikola Tesla and may his great legacy forever live on.
No it was Tesla!
Tired of greedy millionaires trying to prevent innovation.
@arhturcosta4066
Жыл бұрын
well, what are you gonna do? form a rebel army which consists exterminating greedy rich elites just to force innovation advance in the light of speed? I don't think so...
He didn’t. He stole it from Louis Le Prince
HE STOLE THE PATENT
only 7 minutes? really?
@CourtneMarland
5 жыл бұрын
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Hollywood cheap land? Lol not anymore.
once again copyright law ruins creative endeavors. or maybe this was the first time. either way copyright law ruins everything.
If you start to do ending like wendover production I will unsubscribe.
Edison just like Rockefeller or Carnegie were businessmen with questionable ethics in today's standards but who nevertheless built our modern world
Pin me Ps I don't think this will work
@CourtneMarland
5 жыл бұрын
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