Hollywood is a neighborhood in Los Angeles known as the historic home and center of the American film industry. Several major movie studios are located in Hollywood. While a small community in 1870, Hollywood officially merged with Los Angeles in 1910 and soon after the film industry emerged there, becoming the most recognizable in the world as filmmakers moved there from the East Coast to escape patent restrictions. Major events and landmarks in Hollywood include the opening of the Capitol Records Building in 1956, the creation of the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1958, and the Academy Awards being held each year since 2002 at the Dolby Theater, formerly the Kodak Theater, located where the historic Hollywood Hotel once stood.

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Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California. The
neighborhood is notable for its place as the home of the U.S. film industry, including
several of its historic studios. Its name has come to be a metonym for the motion picture
industry of the United States. Hollywood is also a highly ethnically diverse, densely
populated, economically diverse neighborhood and retail business district.
Hollywood was a small community in 1870 and was incorporated as a municipality in
1903. It officially merged with the city of Los Angeles in 1910, and soon thereafter a
prominent film industry began to emerge, eventually becoming the most recognizable
film industry in the world.
By 1912, major motion-picture companies had set up production near or in Los
Angeles. In the early 1900s, most motion picture patents were held by Thomas
Edison's Motion Picture Patents Company in New Jersey, and filmmakers were often
sued to stop their productions. To escape this, filmmakers began moving out west,
where Edison's patents could not be enforced. Also, the weather was ideal and there
was quick access to various settings. Los Angeles became the capital of the film
industry.
Director D. W. Griffith was the first to make a motion picture in Hollywood. His 17-
minute short film In Old California (1910) was filmed for the Biograph Company.
Although Hollywood banned movie theaters—of which it had none—before annexation
that year, Los Angeles had no such restriction. The first film by a Hollywood
studio, Nestor Motion Picture Company, was shot on October 26, 1911. The Whitley
home was used as its set, and the unnamed movie was filmed in the middle of their
groves at the corner of Whitley Avenue and Hollywood Boulevard.
The Capitol Records Building on Vine Street, just north of Hollywood Boulevard, was
built in 1956, and the Hollywood Walk of Fame was created in 1958 as a tribute to
artists and other significant contributors to the entertainment industry. The official
opening was on February 8, 1960.
The Dolby Theatre, which opened in 2001 as the Kodak Theatre at the Hollywood &
Highland Center mall, is the home of the Oscars. The mall is located where the
historic Hollywood Hotel once stood.
The Academy Awards are held in late February/early March (since 2004) of each year,
honoring the preceding year in film. Prior to 2004, they were held in late March/early

2. April. Since 2002, the Oscars have been held at their new home at the Dolby (formerly
Kodak) Theater at Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue.