Hollywood is where America’s film and television industries have most of their studios and offices. It is located in northwest Los Angeles, California. It has many attractions for the film industry. It has an ideal, sunny and temperate climate with varied terrain.
In 1908 one of his first feature films was completed, ‘El Conde de Montecristo’. It was shot in Chicago. In addition, by the end of 1911, more than 15 film production companies had sprung up in the area. Hollywood celebrities before World War I include Charlie Chaplin, Samuel Goldwyn, Douglas Fairbanks, and Cecil B. de Mille. The 20th century: Fox, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount Pictures, Columbia, Warner Brothers, etc. they were among his best film companies.
However, with the advent of talkies, many famous stars of the silent film era were practically forced to retire. However, the biggest threat to Hollywood came with the introduction of television in the late 1940s. Many movie companies had to lower the blinds. Also, this brought a big change in Hollywood. In the early 1960s, Hollywood supplied about 80% of the programs to the American television network.
Today, Hollywood is not only the center of the motion picture industries, but also of America’s motion picture and television recording industries.
Hollywood is the largest film industry in total revenue factor and the second largest in total ticket sales, total movie releases. Movies that are released around the world with high screens, it does not matter, today’s Hollywood includes high technology in its studios.
Image shown is from DW Griffith’s epic film ‘Intolerance’. Made around 1916 and generally accepted by film critics and audiences as one of the great classics of all time.
An adobe hut stood in Nopalera, named for the area’s native Mexican Nopal cactus in 1853. By 1870, an agricultural community flourished in the area with thriving crops of many common and exotic varieties. These occupants knew the area as the Cahuenga Valley, after passing in the Santa Monica Mountains instantly to the north. Soon thereafter, speculation about the land led to the subdivision of large parcels and an influx of owners.
Some of the other Hollywood highlights are the Hollywood Bowl (a natural amphitheater), the Pilgrimage Play Amphitheater and the Greek Theater in Griffith Park, Grauman’s Chinese Theater, and the California Art Club.