FB 110: A Hollywood Ending: How One Inventor’s Mysterious Disappearance Changed the American Film Industry

Flashback: History's Unintended Consequences

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Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 818 Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

The birth of Hollywood owes a surprising amount to the untimely demise of a single Frenchman.

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1:39.2	Back in 1976, Rawlins took a job with a theatre group in Leeds in Northern England.
1:44.9	I needed somewhere to live.
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1:57.1	Unfortunately, the house was so run down that it was under threat of demolition.
2:01.6	And at that point, the guy selling it to us said,
2:05.6	Oh, they won't be able to knock this down.
2:07.6	The inventor of the movie camera once lived here.
2:09.6	No, not Thomas Edison. He lived in New Jersey.
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