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How could USA cinema not become so much more successfull than other countries?

Some thoughts:

-DW Griffith sticks to acting, greatly retarding American artistic development. (This will slow down others as well, but it isn't going to give the huge USA advantage)
-Motion Picture Trust isn't brokent up, greatly restricting the ability of people to make movies, and limiting people from entering the industry (at least in the USA)
-European Countries discover much sooner the value of movies as Propaganda, studios such as UFA are founded earlier. you could get movies from competing sides in WWI being exhibited all over the USA for instance
-Alternatively the USA could not notice this, and introduce restrictions on use of materials during wartime, leading to severe shortages of film stock.
-You could have a more severe Censor board in the USA, more moral panics such as with Fatty Arbuckle, and people who are unable to work in the USA heading abroad.
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