Los Angeles didn't build two unrelated industries by coincidence. The film industry fled there starting in the 1900s specifically to escape Thomas Edison's East Coast patent monopoly on movie cameras -- warm weather, cheap land, and distance from federal marshals. A decade later, Donald Douglas founded Douglas Aircraft in Santa Monica in 1921 by literally renting space in an abandoned movie studio, for close to identical reasons; Howard Hughes, a Hollywood film producer first, founded Hughes Aircraft in 1932. A century later, technology has hit the film half of that founding story in three escalating waves: streaming revenue that now outpaces the entire global box office, ray tracing's two-step arrival (Pixar's own 2014-16 RenderMan rewrite, then NVIDIA's 2018 real-time GPU breakthrough), and generative AI -- fought over in the 2023 WGA/SAG-AFTRA strikes, now arriving as real tools whose adoption still lags the announcements. This site's own graph already made the deeper connection: LA's aerospace descendants (SpaceX, Anduril, JPL) run the same category of render-compute infrastructure Pixar pioneered, for entirely different reasons.