This document provides an overview of Hollywood from 1910-2009 in decade increments. Some of the key events and developments highlighted include: - DW Griffith directing early masterpieces like The Birth of a Nation in the 1910s that helped establish Hollywood. - The 1920s saw the rise of the studio system and the transition to sound films with The Jazz Singer. - The 1930s was Hollywood's golden age of studio dominance producing iconic films. - World War 2 patriotic films dominated the 1940s but blacklisting impacted the industry in the 1950s. - Independent films rose in popularity in the 1960s-70s challenging the studio system. - Blockbuster franchises like Star Wars renewed cinema in the 1970

1. HOLLYWOOD-AN OVERVIEW
Dr. JANARDHAN JUVVIGUNTA

2. HOLLYWOOD@ 1910-19
• DW Griffith had released ‘In Old California’, on 10th March
1910,
• He was the first to be filmed in Hollywood.
• It was one of Griffith's 98 films of that year
• Griffith had also directed the first two masterpieces of
American cinema – The Birth of a Nation (1915)
and Intolerance (1916)
• Charlie Chaplin's two-reel comedies had him world famous

3. HOLLYWOOD@ 1910-19
• Hollywood myth, Cecil B DeMille's made the first film, The
Squaw Man in 1914 in Arizona,
• He later proceed to Los Angeles
• By 1919, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford started
United Artists
• Later, "Hollywood" had become synonymous with American
cinema.
• Griffith helped to create the grammar of film,
• He took the American cinema from cave painting to
quattrocento (The cultural and artistic events of Italy)

4. HOLLYWOOD@ 1920-29
• Post World War-I, Jewish were shaped the industry
• Established by studios & made films,
• Distributed and exhibited films by establishing offices
worldwide.
• The movie colony gained a reputation for pleasure-seeking
lifestyles
• Some of Europe's greatest talents were attracted to
Hollywood, while silent cinema was refined into a new art in
the comedies of Chaplin, Keaton and Lloyd
• Louis B Mayer founded the Academy of Motion Picture Arts
and Sciences and its Oscars

5. HOLLYWOOD@ 1920-29
• Then Hollywood was hit by two earthquakes
• The first was the Warner Brothers in The Jazz Singer (1927)
• The second was the Wall Street crash of 1929
• These two incidents threatened economic failure
• Bankers handed over the control of the studios
• Chaplin was challenge the talkies with his movie The Gold
Rush (1925)

6. HOLLYWOOD@ 1920-29
Jazz
Singer
& The
Gold
Rush

7. HOLLYWOOD@ 1930-39
• Hollywood's greatest decade began with the advertising
slogan "Garbo talks!".
• Sound pictures brought a flood of new writers to Hollywood,
• A new plots and dialogue led to the enforcement in 1934
• A battle of intellect between censors and film-makers that
lasted 30 years
• The industry was politically divided,
• the moguls moving to the right, the actors, writers and
directors to the left

8. HOLLYWOOD@ 1930-39
• In 1934, the studios developed dramatic styles
• Gothic horror at Universal; social conscience and crime at
Warner; Glitz at MGM
• Genres were codified
• Disney moved to the feature-length Snow White.
• The decade peaked in 1939 when Technicolor came into its
own
• This was the greatest year in Hollywood's history,
with Stagecoach, The Wizard of Oz and Gone with the
Wind among its peaks

9. HOLLYWOOD@ 1940-49
• The Hollywood taking two new genres – the patriotic war
and the dark thriller
• Hollywood enjoyed immense public approval and vast box-
office returns
• The external enemy was attacked in anti-communist
pictures such as The Iron Curtain (1948).
• The writers and directors known as "the Hollywood 10",
went to jail for contempt of Congress

10. HOLLYWOOD@ 1950-59
• In 1950, the cold war went hot in Korea
• Blacklist drove many leftwing artists out of Hollywood
• This atmosphere of suspicion, fear and fear was making
worse by the spread of TV,
• break down the popular core audience, and by the effect of
anti-monopoly legislation that compelled the big studios
• The industry fought back with bigger screens and 3-D
• DeMille's The Ten Commandments aimed at teenagers.
• Elvis Presley debuted to Hollywood

11. HOLLYWOOD@ 1960-69
• The decade ended with the
surprise success of Dennis
Hopper's Easy Rider,
• It was made with a meager
amount, earning a wealth
The decade
opened
with Otto
Preminger ‘s
Exodus and
Stanley
Kubrick’s
Spartacus

12. HOLLYWOOD@ 1970-79
• The success of Easy Rider led to Hopper being given carte
blanche to make the incoherent The Last Movie,
• But young directors, the bearded so-called movie brats,
graduates of film schools and obsessed with movies, were
given their heads.
• The directors to respect American masters such as Hawks,
Hitchcock, Ford, Walsh et al.
• Gangster tradition was dominated in this period

13. HOLLYWOOD@ 1970-79
• The Godfather (1972) was registered huge success
• Steven Spielberg's Jaws (1975), along with George
Lucas's Star Wars (1977), helped renew the cinema-going
habit
• and started a trend for innocent special-effects blockbusters
• The decade ended with The Deer Hunter, Which confront
the Vietnam experience in Hollywood

14. HOLLYWOOD@ 1980-89
• This decade witnessed a succession of expensive failures,
• Scorsese's New York(1977) and Spielberg's 1941 (1979)
• In 1980 Robert Redford encouraged independent film
• US cinema was developing on parallel lines.
• One was the Hollywood way commercial, conventional, and
exorbitantly expensive

15. HOLLYWOOD@ 1990-99
• In 1994 of DreamWorks SKG, the first new major studio for
decades.
• The founders were Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg
from Disney and pop music tycoon David Geffen
• The company was much involved with computer games and
music as with TV and film
• The 1990s saw a succession of major studios changing
hands
• They started subsidiaries to finance or distribute smaller-
scale independent productions

16. HOLLYWOOD@ 1990-99
• Animated films made a major comeback at Disney and
Pixar
• Disney acquired Computer animation
• A number of American horror films were dominated
• Titanic, proved the most lucrative picture

17. HOLLYWOOD@ 2000-09
• Five of the eight big studios that dominated Hollywood's
Golden Age are still there –
20th Century-
Fox, Warner Brothers,
Paramount, Universal,
Columbia,
• under new multinational management
• Remakes and sequels abound,
• Computers and 3-D is back

18. HOLLYWOOD@ 2000-09
• Hollywood's centenary is being marked by James
Cameron's Avatar
• It was made in 3-D,
• Almost every frame of it indebted to an army of special
effects technicians

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