History of hollywood cinema

History of Hollywood Cinema

1. HOLLYWOOD-AN OVERVIEW Dr. JANARDHAN JUVVIGUNTA

2. HOLLYWOOD@ 1910-19 DW Griffith had released   ‘In Old California ’, on 10 th 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

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

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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