The Films Studios of Hollywood
The biggest movies that are being made these days come mostly from the United States, China and India. These countries are leading the way in today?s movie production, with some of them relying heavily on the movie industry as a whole.
In the United States, the majority of the countries movie productions are based in Hollywood in California. The city consists of a huge network of movie studios, stars, directors and various film personnel involved in production.
Hollywood is actually a district situated in the north-west of downtown Los Angeles. Because of its fame and the cultural individuality of movie studios and movie stars, the word Hollywood is often used as a metaphor for the cinema of the United States, and is commonly known as Hollywood film industry all around the world.
It was D.W. Griffith who first started off what was to become Hollywood when he first arrived with a film crew in 1910. They soon took up residence in an abandoned lot in Los Angeles, and it was from here that they started to explore the surrounding areas. The area also provided great conditions to shoot there as it had moderate weather and plenty of sunshine.
The first movie to be shot in Hollywood is usually considered to be ?Old California?. After this, Griffith?s film company decided to stay in the area for more of their productions, before eventually returning back to New York to continue shooting there.
There was a sudden influx of movie companies moving to the area in 1913. They were all moving here to take advantage of what the area had to offer. This is usually told be the time that Hollywood was born.
Nestor Studios, founded in 1911, was the first movie studio in Hollywood, with the first feature film called The Squaw Man being produced around that time. Many more film studios began to quickly move into the area and expand around the Los Angeles area. Gradually Hollywood came to be so associated with the film industry so strongly that this term began to be used as a synonym for the entire movie industry.
It was during the First World War that Hollywood became the movie capital of the entire world. By 1950, music studios and offices had also began moving to Hollywood. By this time much of the movie industry had already been relocated there.
In 1923 a huge advertising sign was erected in the hills that read ?Hollywoodland?. This was eventually abandoned and left, until in 1949 is was repaired and altered to read ?Hollywood? and now stands in the hills in Hollywood to this day.
The whole world now looks towards Hollywood for the glamour and stars of the movie industry and all the showbiz stories. The world now views Hollywood as the epicentre of the movie entertainment world.