By 1915, many major motion-picture companies had relocated to Hollywood from the East Coast. Hollywood was an ideal place to produce movies since filmmakers couldn’t be sued there for infringing on motion picture film patents held by Thomas Edison and his Motion Picture Patents Company.

which nations film industry does cousins describe as ‘the best in the world’ and why? Scandinavia, specifically Sweden and Denmark, because they used unique lighting giving the films a certain look you couldn’t get anywhere else and it was very intellectually driven and themes and ideas where innovative. the lack of censorship meant they had more creative risks and explore more topics than America.

Benjamin Christensen – Haxan (1922), Sealed orders (1912)

D.W. Griffith – birth of a nation (1915), Intolerance (1916)