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    The document summarizes the history of Hollywood and the rise of the American film industry. It details how in the early 1900s, film production began in New York City but moved to Hollywood, California around 1910 due to its favorable weather and cheaper costs. Many production companies were founded in Hollywood in the 1920s, establishing the major film studios. By the 1930s, Hollywood's "Golden Age" emerged with 8 major studios dominating film production.

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    The History of Hollywood

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    Lewis Stevens
    The document summarizes the history of Hollywood and the rise of the American film industry. It details how in the early 1900s, film production began in New York City but moved to Hollywood, California around 1910 due to its favorable weather and cheaper costs. Many production companies were founded in Hollywood in the 1920s, establishing the major film studios. By the 1930s, Hollywood's "Golden Age" emerged with 8 major studios dominating film production.

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    The History of

    Hollywood
    Americas unique contribution to cinema and to
    world culture

    The first movies: NY and East


    Coast cities
    1905- 5-cent movie theaters..a cheap escape

    1910: acting group goes to


    California with director D.W.
    Griffith

    A little village north of


    Los Angeles appealed
    to these actors
    Hollywood

    Starting filming in an open space in downtown L. A.


    Famous names in early cinema

    Lilian Gish
    Mary Pickford
    Lionel Barrymore

    1913 more movie companies went


    west to California/Hollywood
    To avoid paying the high fees to Thomas Edison

    These new companies were mostly owned by Jewish


    immigrants, who help found the Hollywood movie
    industry
    Samuel Goldwyn

    Carl Laemmle

    Adolph Zuckor

    Louis B. Mayer

    The Warner Brothers

    After WWI- European influence


    Alfred Hitchcock
    Fritz Lang
    Jean Renoir
    Rudolph Valentino
    Marlene Dietrich

    1920s: the rise of Hollywood


    Movie production companies moved from NY to California.
    Better lighting, cheap land a perfect place to start a
    new industry

    Early Hollywood (around 1912)

    Keystone Studios (Max Sennet)

    A cheap area near LA with good


    lighting

    1920s- the birth of movie


    studios
    Warner Brothers (1923)
    1927- released the first movie with voice/sound

    Hollywood and the birth of the


    movie star
    Mary Pickford

    Rudoph
    Valentino

    By the 1920s: the Jazz Age/ the


    Roaring 20s

    Youth culture/automobile age

    New musical styles, new


    fashions

    Enjoyment of life, not just hard


    work.

    Hollywood became a place for bohemians, wild


    parties, free from the morality of the East

    Warner Bros., Sunset Blvd.

    1930s: The Golden Age of Hollywood


    8 major studios
    1. Columbia Pictures
    2. 20th Century Fox

    3.
    4.
    5.
    6.

    Warner Bros.
    Paramount Pictures
    Universal Pictures
    MGM

    7. United Artists
    8. RKO Radio Pictures

    Early Warner Bros. Studios

    RKO (1928-1981)

    1924- Metro Goldwin Meyer (MGM)


    Marcus Loew and Louis B. Mayer

    20th Century Fox (1935)


    Darryl F. Zanuck

    Did not own their own theaters:


    Universal
    United
    Columbia Pictures

    1950s: post-war prosperity


    Competition for television

    Target: 195s youth culture


    James Dean
    Marilyn Monroe
    Ava Gardner

    Studio began doing TV

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