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.)
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...