Cobblestone American History and Current Events for Kids and Children

Movie Moguls and Studio Sharks

Cutthroat is cruel and merciless.

A genre is a category of artistic composition marked by a distinctive style.

A furrier is someone who deals with animal furs.

In the early days of Hollywood, getting a movie studio up and running was challenging. The filmmaking industry was cutthroat. The men who succeeded were tough. Many of them were immigrants, who were willing to work hard and to take risks. They also made the geographic shift from starting out in cities on the East Coast to building major studios in California.

Driving Ambition

immigrated to the United States from Germany as a teenager. In 1906, he started a company that rented films to theater owners. Later, he began creating his own movies. In 1912,

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