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This attribute controls the content of the description and og:description elements. | The Silent Age of Hollywood is one of the shorter ones, lasting less than twenty years, yet it would lay the foundation for everything that would follow. It began in 1911, when a number of filmmakers from New York City, seething at the restrictions placed on the industry by Thomas Edison's Motion Picture Patents Company, set out for the small town of Hollywood, California to escape the reach of his lawyers. Hollywood was attractive to these filmmakers for several reasons: its perpetually warm and sunny climate allowing for constant film production with little regard to seasonal shifts in the weather, a relative abundance of cheap labor due to its proximity to Mexico, and a favorable court ruling from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals (which covered the West Coast) that restricted Edison's ability to enforce patent law there. Another popular early destination, for many of the same reasons, was Hobe Sound, Florida, which was built up into the motion picture production center of "Picture City" during the Florida land boom in The Roaring Twenties. However, the busting of the Florida real estate bubble in 1926, coupled with the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane, derailed these plans. |