It's raining out, so you hustle inside.

You grab your popcorn with extra butter and your Diet Coke,

and you settle into a cozy red leather chair.

The lights go down, and there's no place you'd rather be.

The movie theater.

And today's film has a timeless theme.

The Underdog who stands up to the bully.

You sit through it and it's okay.

Not going to win any awards, but perfect for a lazy afternoon when you have nothing better to do.

Anyway, who doesn't love a good bully beatdown?

But here's the twist. The story of how the movie industry was born is much more interesting than anything we might watch in a theater.

And it came at a time when people made their own rules, and the constant threat of violence

created a dangerous vacuum for a few brave souls to step into. This is the story

of a group of renegade visionaries, the death and spectacular rebirth of the first

movie star, in a battle for supremacy with the most famous and cutthroat inventor in the world.

And all of it came together to shape not only our culture, but the actual geography of our country itself.

In this story, this is a real bully beatdown.

On today's episode, the spectacular and improbable birth of Hollywood.

This is a twist of history.

It's summer, 1909 in New York City.

43-year-old Carl Lemley sits on the passenger side of a Ford Model T

as one of his employees drives him through a seedy part of

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