Hollywood wasn't an alternative to location shooting..it WAS the location.
There are many film histories that cover this, but for starters, try Eileen
Bowser's "The Transformation of Cinema", (Univ. of California Press, I think).
Just about any account of silent filmmaking will have something to add, and for a
good fictionalized version, Peter Bogdanovich's "Nickelodeon" summarizes the
period nicely.

Robert Hunt

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