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You are sent to Los Angeles in 1913, as a young man (late 20's), with the money and connections necessary to put together and direct the country's first feature length film -- meaning you could be the father of modern cinema, beating out DW Griffith's Birth of a Nation by a year or so (though the film would come out about the same time as the Italian film Cabiria).

What do you do for your first film? What kind of film career do you take on from there? (You can live up to, say, 1960, age 75 or so.) What kind of cinematic and/or social ideas would you push, if any? And how, if at all, do you expect what you do would change the course of history from OTL?

PS This is my third thread, and I realize what I'm doing is similar to something else attempted in years past. This is something I'd been thinking about for awhile, independently.
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