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About
Hollywood
A
"LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY"
By:
Josie Cory, Publisher/Editor TVI
Magazine
It was in the
1800's
when farmers and homesteaders settled in
what is now known as the Hollywood area. They were
attracted by a pleasant climate, the nearby Pacific
ocean and the desert stretching to the
east.
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• Spanish
annals refer to an unimportant way station on El
Camino Real and the Cahuenga pass, then the
principal route between southern and northern
California.
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• The
name Hollywood was given to the community by Mrs.
Horace H. William from Topeka, Kansas, deriving the
name Hollywood from a friends's summer residence.
In 1903 the colony was incorporated as the city of
Hollywood and in 1910 became a district of Los
Angeles.
HOLLYWOOD
FILM
STUDIOS
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• The
pioneers of the motion-picture industry found
southern California extremely well suited to their
need of maximum sunshine, mild temperatures, varied
terrain and a labor market. In 1908 one of the
first "story" moving pictures, The Count of Monte
Cristo, begun in Chicago by William N. Selig, and
was finished in Hollywood by Francis Boggs.
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•
About this time the Motion Pictures Patents
Company, ("Movie Trust"), was formed in New York by
producers licensed by Thomas Alva Edison to use his
kinetoscope. A group of independent producers and
exhibitors, using French cameras for which patent
priority was claimed, threatened the trust's
monopoly, resulting in a series of suits,
injunction and even street fights. The independents
eventually moved to southern
California.
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• The
trust companies followed, and studios, independent
and trust alike, became centered in Edendale.
Resultant overcrowding caused some producers to
move a few miles westward into Hollywood. In 1911,
David Horsley leased the northwest corner of Gower
street and Sunset boulevard for his Nestor Film
Company Studio, the first real studio in Hollywood.
Before the end of the year fifteen companies had
located close by, to be followed by many others.
The trust companies dwindled; the independents
eventually dominated the
industry.
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• In
1913, Cecil B. deMille, Jesse Lasky and Samuel
Goldwyn combined to produce The Squaw Man in a barn
just a block from the intersection of Hollywood
Boulevard and Vine Street. The barn was
subsequently moved to Paramount Studios then to the
Hollywood Bowl area, as a historical monument. D.W.
Griffith helped give Hollywood its start in the
race for supremacy in motion pictures.
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Early films such as The Birth of a Nation
(1915) helped set a standard of showmanship. Early
stars included Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks,
Charlie Chaplin, Gloria Swanson, Rudolph Valentino,
Harold Lloyd, Francis X. Bushman, William S. Hart,
Lillian Gish and Tom Mix. Great studios arose under
leaders such as Adolph Zukor, William Fox, Samuel
Goldwyn and Louis B. Mayer. The 1920's saw
Hollywood as the center of a movie industry with a
worldwide market.
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•
Real estate boomed, riches were
extravagantly displayed and headline scandals
periodically occurred. Censorship bureaus in many
cities ordered the suppression of pictures or the
deletion of suggestive lines and scenes. The
producers responded by forming an organization that
became known as the Hays Office, a bureau of
self-censorship, headed by Will Hays, former
postmaster general, under the aegis of The Motion
Picture and Distributors of America, Inc.
Part
02
HOLLYWOOD
TELEVISION STUDIOS
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• Television
as a competitor to the movie industry began to be
felt during the prosperous years of World War II.
The Hollywood counteraction was a rash of new
techniques involving new lenses, wider screens and
stereophonic sound. Nevertheless, thousands of
theaters stayed closed and million of movie patrons
preferred the home television
screen.
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• The
RKO Studio was taken over by television producers.
In the early 1960's about 80% of the three main
television networks' evening programming originated
from Hollywood. The financial structure of movie
making underwent a radical change. The theater
chains of the old studio giants were broken up,
then largely replaced by a conglomerate alliance of
independent producers, profit-sharing stars,
bankers, agents and investment counselors.
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•
The blocking of foreign
currency and capital gains and income tax factors
provided incentive for production of an increasing
number of films overseas, and the cheap supply of
extras and other help encouraged this trend.
However, thousands of technically skilled artisans
who have made Hollywood and its environs their home
have to some extent been absorbed into the
television industry, with an equally vast inventory
of equipment. The entertainment industry in
Hollywood is so firmly anchored that it will hardly
be uprooted.
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Editor's Note
/ RADIO
AND RECORDING
STUDIOS
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• Radio
in Hollywood was a natural outgrowth of its supply
of talent and in pre-television days Hollywood
rivaled New York as radio center for nation-wide
programs. Columbia square, the Mutual Don Lee
Broadcasting system studios and the National
Broadcasting Company studios stand as monuments to
radio. The recording of songs written for movies,
of radio and television programms and of other
popular music is a thriving
industry.
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• In
1919 the Hollywood Bowl, a 50 acres natural
amphitheater owned by Los Angeles country, became a
reality. The pool of artists who moved their
talents to the area in the ensuing years made
possible the array of talent that attracts
record-breaking crowds to the outdoor series of
summer concerts known as "Symphonies Under the
Stars ". Other main points of interest are the
Pilgrimage Play amphitheater, the Aquarius, the
Palladium, the Greek Theater, and of course there's
every major studio.
Josie
Cory
Publisher/Editor
TVI Magazine
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BBC, LA Times, NY Times, VRA's D-Diaries, Press
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