
Part One: How Hollywood Helped The Nazis
Behind the Bastards
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The History of the Motion Picture Industry
In 1892, Thomas Alba Edison got the patent for like the first functional movie camera that you could really sell as a commercial device. In 1908, he was a leading mind behind the creation of the motion picture patents company. He figured movies would always be like five or ten minute shorts that people watched a pictures than a row.
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