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THE ARTS IN CONTEXT HISTORY OF The Arts covers a wide verity of professions from Theatre, Music to Literature and the of it goes as far back to the cave men in preastoric times to modern day and even now new ways are being thought of and old ideas have been changed. American Film In 1896, the famous inventor Thomas Edison won the patent for the Latham Loop, a device that prevented the film inside a camera from snapping. Thus ensued a series of conflicts, lawsuits, pirating, and armed confrontations, as would-be movie producers struggled to attain independence from Edison’s attempt to monopolize the movie industry. As the more fanciful story goes, these renegade producers chose Hollywood as a base because its proximity to the Mexican border offered a safe place to hide from Edison's bully-gangs. Ultimately, the renegade producers won the day, and the Hollywood studio system was born. From the 1920s through the 1940s, if a movie was to be made, you can bet that a Hollywood studio made it. The studios not only controlled most of the people and talent of the American film industry, they also regulated artistic vision, theme, content, and subject. But no matter how stifling such control became, there was no alternative sour