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Re:Tech elites leaving San Francisco threaten Silicon Valley... by lozaning on Monday December 07, 2020 @02:35PM (#25336165)
Hollywood is what Hollywood is largely due to its geography. Within a ~4 hour drive of Hollywood its possible to get to an area of california that looks at least passingly (for the purpose of movie making at least) similar to more or less anywhere in the world.

This isn't the map i was looking for, but gives you the basic idea https://brilliantmaps.com/california-filming-map/. The Geographic diversity around Hollywood is absolutely responsible for its initial success.

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Re:Tech elites leaving San Francisco threaten Silicon Valley... by maxwell on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @01:37PM (#25349522)
Cool map. Ecological diversity is evident around LA:

http://www.californiaherps.com/images/vegetationmapjeaster.j...

But what were the first two movies made in Hollywood? Griffith's Western and DeMille's Western. If another genre had been preferred in the 1910s, seems like a movie hub could've landed elsewhere. (Or maybe Westerns were actually made more due to budgetary constraints than preferences.)

https://digg.com/2019/movie-genre-popularity-1910-to-2018-da...

Couldn't've be East Coast because Edison.

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/51722/thomas-edison-drov...

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Re:Tech elites leaving San Francisco threaten Silicon Valley... by cellar_door on Monday December 07, 2020 @03:54PM (#25337360)
The climate too. Always sunny (good lighting). Warm, but not too hot.
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