1. Hollywood Research
History:
Hollywood is a district in Los Angeles and soon a prominent filmindustry beganto emerge,
eventually becoming the most recognizable film industry in the world.
In 1911 the first studio of Hollywood 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.
2. 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
Horror
Comedy
Sci-Fi
Romance
Thriller
3. 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.
Classical cinematography:
The narrative and visual style of Classical Hollywood Style would further develop in
the talkies from where it began in the silents. The primary changes in American film-
making came from the film industry itself, with the height of the studio system. This
mode of production, with its reigning star system bankrolled by several key studios,
had preceded sound by several years
Many great works of cinema that emerged from this period were of
highly regimented film-making. One reason this was possible is that,
with so many films being made, not everyone had to be a big hit. A
studio could gamble on a medium-budget feature with a good script
and relatively unknown actors: Citizen Kane, directed by Orson
Welles and regarded by some as the greatest film of all time, fits that
description.
