A group project about Hollywood.

1. Hollywood in a
Nutshell
Presentation by Anahit Asatryan and Sergey
Hayriyan

2. When was Hollywood founded?
Hollywood was laid out as a subdivision in 1887 by Harvey Wilcox, who was
a prohibitionist from Kansas. However, real-estate magnate H.J. Whitley transformed
Hollywood into a wealthy and popular residential area. Hollywood became a
municipality in 1903 and was incorporated into Los Angeles in 1910. By 1911, the
first movie studio appeared on Sunset Boulevard.
History

3. How did Hollywood get its name?
Daeida Wilcox gave Hollywood
its name. She was the wife of
Harvey Wilcox, who owned the
area and in 1887 submitted a
subdivision map to the Los
Angeles county recorder’s
office that used the name. A
devout Christian, Daeida
reportedly overheard the word
Hollywood on a train and
thought that it was a perfect
name for the Wilcoxes’
envisioned utopia.
(The Hollywood sign originally spelled out
"Hollywoodland" when it was first erected in 1923.
The sign soon became a beloved icon to residents in
Hollywood and the motion picture industry, but, in
1932, some tragic news surrounded the sign and a
young actress)

4. Hollywood, also called Tinseltown,
district within the city of Los
Angeles, California, U.S., whose name
is synonymous with the
American film industry. Lying northwest
of downtown Los Angeles, it is bounde by
Hyperion Avenue and Riverside Drive
(east), Beverly Boulevard (south), the
foothills of the Santa Monica
Mountains (north), and Beverly
Hills (west). Since the early 1900s,
when moviemaking pioneers found in
southern California an ideal blend of
mild climate, much sunshine, varied
terrain, and a large labour market, the
image of Hollywood as the fabricator of
tinseled cinematic dreams has been
etched worldwide.

5. The first house in Hollywood was
an adobe building (1853) on a site near Los
Angeles, then a small city in the new state
of California. Hollywood was laid out as a
real-estate subdivision in 1887 by Harvey
Wilcox, a prohibitionist from Kansas
who envisioned a community based on his sober
religious principles. Real-estate
magnate H.J. Whitley, known as the “Father of
Hollywood,” subsequently transformed
Hollywood into a wealthy and popular
residential area. At the turn of the 20th
century, Whitley was responsible for bringing
telephone, electric, and gas lines into the
new suburb. In 1910, because of an
inadequate water supply, Hollywood residents
voted to consolidate with Los Angeles.

6. In 1908 one of the first storytelling
movies, The Count of Monte Cristo, was
completed in Hollywood after its filming
had begun in Chicago. In 1911 a site on
Sunset Boulevard was turned into
Hollywood’s first studio, and soon about 20
companies were producing films in the area.
In 1913 Cecil B. DeMille, Jesse
Lasky, Arthur Freed, and Samuel
Goldwyn formed Jesse Lasky Feature Play
Company (later Paramount Pictures). DeMille
produced The Squaw Man in a barn one block
from present-day Hollywood Boulevard and
Vine Street, and more box-office successes
soon followed. s

7. Hollywood had become the centre of the
American film industry by 1915 as more
independent filmmakers relocated there from
the East Coast. For more than three
decades, from early silent films through
the advent of “talkies,” figures such
as D.W. Griffith, Goldwyn, Adolph
Zukor, William Fox, Louis B. Mayer, Darryl
F. Zanuck, and Harry Cohn served as
overlords of the great film studios—
Twentieth Century-Fox, Metro-Goldwyn-
Mayer, Paramount Pictures, Columbia
Pictures, Warner Brothers, and others.
Among the writers who were fascinated by
Hollywood in its “golden age” were F. Scott
Fitzgerald, Aldous Huxley, Evelyn Waugh,
and Nathanael West.v

8. The United States cinema (Hollywood) is the oldest
film industry in the world and also the largest
film industry in terms of revenue.
What are old Hollywood movies called?
Classical Hollywood cinema is a term used in film criticism to describe both a
narrative and visual style of filmmaking which became characteristic of
American cinema between the 1910s (rapidly after World War I) and the 1960s.

9. Top 5 films that changed the
Hollywood forever
Initially we planned to bring you a list of best Hollywood films ever. But after
some research, it occurred to us that it is merely impossible to fit all of them
inside a list of 5 films. Besides that, films are subjective. One fraction of the
audience can absolutely praise the film, while other one can despise it.
Let’s move forward and count down our picks for top 10 movies that changed the
industry forever.

10. #5 King Kong (1933)
A film about a giant gorilla revolutionized
fantasy and horror cinema. With
groundbreaking special effects, “King Kong”
far exceeded the supposed limits of
filmmaking at the time.

11. #4 Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Let’s say the modern zombies of media exist because of
this film. “Night of the Living Dead” did not only set
the standards for cinematic zombies, but also started
a trend of low-budget horror films.
90% of modern horror films owe a debt gratitude to
this film.

12. #3 The Avengers (2012)
After years of solo superhero
films, Marvel engineered a team
up that was The Avengers. While
the previous film of our list
influenced studios to invest in
low-budget films, “The
Avengers” raised the bar for
superhero and big budget
franchises, because of its
unfathomable success. Today,
many film studios in Hollywood,
influenced by Avengers, are
trying to replicate and create
their own big team-up superhero
film .

13. #2 Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs (1937)
When the Snow White met the Seven Dwarfs the film
history was never the same. Much of Disney’s larger
successes in industry can be traced to this film,
their first animated feature. Out of this film came a
long string of Disney hits, foreshadowing the
company’s eventual world domination.

14. #1 “The Jazz Singer” (1922)
There was perhaps no greater innovation made to film
than sound. Hollywood was ruled by silence, but in
1922 all that changed with the release of “The Jazz
Singer”. This musical was the first synchronous sound
film that made Hollywood stop and listen. Proving
that sound was the next logical evolutionary step for
the cinema, “The Jazz Singer” effectively ended the
silent era. There’s no denying the film’s place in
the annals of Hollywood history.

15. Hollywood Museum
The Hollywood Museum is a
museum
in Hollywood, California, that
houses a collection of
memorabilia from the history of
American motion pictures and
television.
The collection of the Hollywood
Museum contains over 11,000
items, including costumes,
props, stop motion figures,
photographs, scripts, and other
artifacts.

16. Thanks for reading