{"id":62992,"date":"2021-02-02T04:00:24","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T09:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=62992"},"modified":"2021-02-01T21:24:44","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T02:24:44","slug":"the-history-of-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2021\/02\/02\/the-history-of-hollywood\/","title":{"rendered":"The History of Hollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ilFzX8ggXeo\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The Cynical Historian<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 3 Sep 2020<\/p>\n<p>This episode is about the history of Hollywood, and it&#8217;s quite a long one. This is part 9 in a long running series about California history.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>references:<br \/>\nBernard F. Dick, <em>Engulfed: The Death of Paramount Pictures and the Birth of Corporate Hollywood<\/em> (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2001). <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3f2Yb0S\u200b\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/amzn.to\/3f2Yb0S\u200b<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Hollywood&#8217;s America: United States History Through its Films<\/em>, eds. Mintz, Steven and Randy Roberts (St. James, N.York: Brandywine Press, 1993). <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2tZIoJT\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/amzn.to\/2tZIoJT<\/a>\u200b<\/p>\n<p>Richard Slotkin, <em>Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America<\/em> (New York: Atheneum Books, 1992).  <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2KX0jI2\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/amzn.to\/2KX0jI2<\/a>\u200b<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Starr, <em>Inventing the Dream: California through the Progressive Era<\/em>, (Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1985).  <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2VPTbVX\u200b\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/amzn.to\/2VPTbVX\u200b<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Support the channel through PATREON: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/CynicalHistorian\u200b\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/CynicalHistorian\u200b<\/a><br \/>\nor by purchasing MERCH: teespring.com\/stores\/the-cynical-hist&#8230;\u200b<\/p>\n<p>LET&#8217;S CONNECT:<br \/>\nTwitch:  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/cynicalhistorian\u200b\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/cynicalhistorian\u200b<\/a><br \/>\nDiscord:  <a href=\"https:\/\/discord.gg\/Ukthk4U\u200b\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/discord.gg\/Ukthk4U\u200b<\/a><br \/>\nTwitter:  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cynical_History\u200b\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cynical_History\u200b<\/a><br \/>\nSubreddit:  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/CynicalHistory\/\u200b\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/CynicalHistory\/\u200b<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Wiki: 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&#8217;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 to Los Angeles, where attempts to enforce Edison&#8217;s patents were easier to evade. Also, the weather was ideal and there was quick access to various settings. Los Angeles became the capital of the film industry in the United States. The mountains, plains and low land prices made Hollywood a good place to establish film studios.<\/p>\n<p>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 \u2014 of which it had none \u2014 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 H. J. 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.<\/p>\n<p>The first studio in Hollywood, the Nestor Company, was established by the New Jersey\u2013based Centaur Company in a roadhouse at 6121 Sunset Boulevard (the corner of Gower), in October 1911. Four major film companies \u2013 Paramount, Warner Bros., RKO, and Columbia \u2013 had studios in Hollywood, as did several minor companies and rental studios. In the 1920s, Hollywood was the fifth-largest industry in the nation. By the 1930s, Hollywood studios became fully vertically integrated, as production, distribution and exhibition was controlled by these companies, enabling Hollywood to produce 600 films per year.<\/p>\n<p>Hollywood became known as Tinseltown and the &#8220;dream factory&#8221; because of the glittering image of the movie industry. Hollywood has since become a major center for film study in the United States.<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br \/>\nHashtags:  #history\u200b #Hollywood\u200b #California<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screenshot_2021-02-02-The-History-of-Hollywood.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screenshot_2021-02-02-The-History-of-Hollywood-480x270.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-62994\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screenshot_2021-02-02-The-History-of-Hollywood-480x270.png 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screenshot_2021-02-02-The-History-of-Hollywood-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screenshot_2021-02-02-The-History-of-Hollywood-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screenshot_2021-02-02-The-History-of-Hollywood.png 854w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cynical Historian Published 3 Sep 2020 This episode is about the history of Hollywood, and it&#8217;s quite a long one. 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