"The growth of the cinema in the USA coincided with rapid industrial expansion and urban development which took place in the early decades of the 20th century. Cheap storefront s soon gave way to purpose-built s, then in the 1920s, while production shifted from the East Coast to the never-never land of where the movie colony flourished in relative luxury and isolation. Here the s built their lavish mansions complete with s and s. Tinseltown continued to grow throughout the 1920s, it survived the and the impact of the , and experienced a golden age during the 1930s, the peak years of the . Decline finally set in during the postwar years when films were increasingly shot on location or abroad, away from the studios. And then, in the 1950s, along came ..."
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Joel Waldo Finler, (1st edition, 1988, Octopus Books Ltd.; 2nd edition, 1992, Mandarin Paperbacks)
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