Hollywood research

Hollywood research

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  History: Hollywood is adistrict in Los Angeles and soon a prominent film industry began to emerge, eventually becoming the most recognizable film industry in the world. In 1911 the first studio of hollwood was established in Hollywood By 1912, major motion-picture companies had set up production near or in Los Angeles At the beginning there were only black and white, silent films mainly string Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickford but soon major break there was a major a break through producing movie with sound Four major film companies – Paramount, Warner Bros., RKO, and Columbia – had studios in Hollywood, as did several minor companies and rental studios. In the 1920s, Hollywood was the fifth largest industry in the nation. The film industry is one portion of production. Film distribution and exhibition reach around the world and continue to adopt varying political economical and technological changes. Hollywood however remain to be dominant factor in our film viewing experiences. Film studio: There are also independently owned studio facilities, who have never produced a motion picture of their own because they are not Entertainment companies or Motion Picture companies; they are companies who sell only studio space. The largest film studio in the world is Hengdian World Studios, in Zhejiang, China. In 1893, Thomas Edison built the first movie studio in the United States The first movie studio in the Hollywood area was Nestor Studios, opened in 1911 by Al Christie for David Horsley Five large companies, 20th Century Fox, RKO Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros., and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer came to be known as the "Big Five," the "majors," or "the Studios" in trade publications such as Variety, and their management structures and practices collectively came to be known as the "studio system." Genre:  Action  Drama  Animated
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   Horror  comedy Sci-Fi  Romance  Thriller Media conglomerates: • Disney • Warner bros • Paramount • Universal pictures • Columbia pictures RKS’S Becky Sharp (1937) was the first feature-length Technicolor film, Major hits from the big five studios such as Disney’s snow white and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), Silly Symphonies, The Old Mall. After massive success by ‘big five’ studios the major studios were forced to sell off the cinema chains that they owned by the US. The American film industry rapidly declined after during the period of 1950 because people chose television over cinema It wasn’t until late 1980’s that the Hollywood studio fully recovered.