New Jeresy to LA

If you had to summarize and explain the events that led from the film industry's transfer from New Jersey to Los Angeles, how would you explain it? What was Thomas Edison's role in this transition? What role did patents and Nickelodeons play in this dispute?

 I would explain it as: Edison took credit for so many inventions. He gathered people from the most powerful companies and basically patented everything about film. Because of this, all the smaller film companies wanted to move as far away as possible from Edison. Edison's role is that he almost "scared" people away from the east coast. That's how LA became a huge film area. Patents played a huge role in this transition as people just wanted to make movies and not pay Edison to do it.