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Movies today are big and exciting, but they started out very small! At first, movies were just short, simple moving pictures. They only lasted a few minutes and were often shown in small rooms or as part of fun shows called vaudeville. People were amazed to see pictures move on a screen – it was a brand new kind of magic! Around the early 1900s, people in America started making more and more of these films. The first places where movies were made a lot were on the East Coast, in cities like New York and in the state of New Jersey. This was because those places had money, other entertainment businesses, and lots of people who could work in the new movie world. But these early moviemakers ran into a big problem: Thomas Edison. You might know him as the inventor of the light bulb! Edison was a very smart inventor, and he owned many special papers called patents for movie cameras and projectors. This meant that if you wanted to make a movie, you usually had to pay Edison money to use his inventions. If you didn't, he could even try to stop you from making movies! Edison's company tried to control almost everything about making films, which made things very hard for other moviemakers. To get away from Edison's rules and constant lawsuits, and also to find a better place to film, many smart moviemakers decided to move far away. They wanted a sunny place where they could film outside almost every single day, without needing expensive lights. They found the perfect spot in Southern California, close to a growing city called Los Angeles. This area was just right for many reasons. Not only did it have lots of sunshine all the time, but it also had many different kinds of places very close by. Moviemakers could find tall mountains, wide deserts, beautiful ocean beaches, and open fields. This made it easy and cheaper to film different scenes without traveling far. Inside Los Angeles, a neighborhood called Hollywood became very popular with these moviemakers. It was far from Edison's reach back East, and it had plenty of open land to build on. Soon, many movie studios opened in Hollywood. They built huge indoor rooms for filming (soundstages) and even big outdoor sets that looked like entire towns! They also started hiring lots of actors, directors, writers, and other people who wanted to work in this exciting new business. Because so many creative people and movie companies came together in Hollywood, it quickly became the most important place for making movies in America. This is how the famous "Hollywood" we know today came to be!