Surprisingly, perhaps, the most active country in movie production was Denmark, where the Nordisk company churned out sixty-seven films the year after its foundation in 1906. By 1914, however, imported American films were taking the largest share of movie showings in every European country. The European cinema industry had been born, but the global dominance of Hollywood, where movie companies were beginning to move from the East Coast by this time, was already on the horizon.
