THE AMERICAN FILM

INDUSTRY

CHAPTER I 1.History of Hollywood,

California

Hollywood was a small comunity in 1870.

It merged with the city of Los Angeles in 1910 and

become in the 20th a prominent film industry in the
world.

The legend says that H.J. Whitley is the Father of

Hollywood.

On February 1, 1887, Wilcox also submitted a grid

map of his new town to the Los Angeles County
recorder's office. This was the first official
document with the name "Hollywood" printed on it.

Hollywood was considered a cultural icon,

emphasizing leisure, luxury.

The first moving..the horse motion

CHAPTER II:
The history of the Hollywood movie industry

In the early 1900s

Thomas Edison invented kinetoscope

and the vitascope

1912 - First movie shot in Hollywood,

Californa is a silent movie filmed,
a melodrama about the Mexican era of
California, Nestor Studio

1920sNickelodeon - the first movie theaters

The Nickelodeon was the first type
of indoor exhibition space dedicated
to showing projected movies, profited
throughout the 1920's.

Later, they were theatres with pianos

or organs. Movies were of every day
activities, sporting events, or
miscelaneous movies

each of whom owned

their own film production

The earliest and most affluent film companies

Universal, United, and Columbia Pictures were also considered noteworthy, despite not owning their own
theaters, while Disney, Monogram, and Republic were considered third-tier.

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The 1930s was considered the Golden

Age of Hollywood

the introduction of sound into

film

creating new genres such as

action, musicals,
documentaries

social statement films,

comedies, westerns, and horror
movies.

good films and movie stars

1930- 1940s
Economic depresion

1930- 1940s -Big 5 Studios that

survived the Depression:

1950s - a change in the film

industrys target market!

By 1950s , an estimated 10 million homes

owned a television set and a shift in
demographics created a change in the film
industrys target market, which began
creating material aimed at American youth.

1950s Hollywood new characters

Instead of traditional, idealized portrayals of characters, filmmakers

started creating talesof rebellion and rock n roll.

This era saw the rise of films featuring darker plot lines and
characters played by edgier stars like James Dean, Ava Gardner,
andMarilyn Monroe.

Hollywood 1960-1970s

Decline during the late 1960s with the Vietnam War

Flourished again during the 1970s. Filmmakers focused on making

high-action and youth-oriented pictures,

New story-telling techniques and 'artistic' options, by the

influences of various European "New Wave" movements :

Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

If... (1968, UK)

Night of the Living Dead (1968)

Kubrick's2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Hopper'sEasy Rider (1969)

Peckinpah'sThe Wild Bunch (1968)

By 1970th- The Golden Age of Hollywood was over.

This caused a depression in the film

industry that had been developing over
the past 25 years.

A few studios still struggled to survive

as Floridas Disney World.

Because of financial struggles, national

companies bought out many studios.

1970-80s The rebirth of Hollywood- high-action and

youth-oriented pictures

1970s Jaws and Star Wars,

which became the highestgrossing movies in film
history (at that time).

1980s Return of the Jedi,

Terminator,and Batman

1990s It caused a major decrease in box

office
The
In

Home Video Revolution

1992, CD-ROMs were created.

These

paved the way for movies on DVD, which hit

stores by 1997.

DVDs featured

a much better image quality as well as

the capacity for interactive content, and videotapes
became obsolete a few years later.

II. 1 The four main periods

The silent era (1920-1929)

Tom Mix, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Douglas Fairbanks, and Clara Bow

Classical Hollywood ( 1929-1960)

Elisabet Taylor

M. Monroe

Vivian Leight

New Hollywood (1960-1980)

Contemporary Period (1980present)

II.2. Films in the Golden Age period that remain

classics to the present day

King Kong, 1933

The Wizard of Oz,
Gone with the Wind,
Casablanca,1942
It's a Wonderful Life,
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 1937
The Wizard of Oz, 1939
Citizen Kane, 1941
TV emerges in the 1950s as studios are broken up for being
monopolies - Ends the Golden Era

CHAPTER III: STUDIOS

The Walt Disney Company

Disney was founded on October 16,

1923

In 1928 Disney came up with the idea

of a mouse character named Mortimer
while on a train headed to California,
drawing up a few simple drawings. The
mouse was later renamedMickey
Mouse

Disneyland - opened on july 18, 1955

Disneyland - Movies

2. Warner Bros

2. Warner Bros - was one of the first

studios withsynchronized soundIn 1925

The Jazz Singer

The Singing Foolwas also a

success.

Lights of New York

The Terror

Don Juan

Casablanca

Yankee Doodle Dandy,

This Is the Army

Mission to Moscow

In the late 1990s, Warner obtained

rights to theHarry Potter productions

Distinctions

The distinction was achieved in 2012

withThe Dark Knight RisesandThe Hobbit:
An Unexpected Journey.

Warner's cartoons:
Merrie Melodies

1931 and 1969, during thegolden age of American

animation: Bugs Bunny,Daffy Duck,Porky PigandElmer
Fudd, Tweety Bird and Sylvester.

Looney Tunes- 1930 to 1969 during

thegolden age of American animation

Bugs Bunny, is regarded as acultural iconand has his own

star on theHollywood Walk of Fame

3. Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc.

It was founded in 1957 by formerMetro-Goldwyn-Mayeranimation directorsWilliam

HannaandJoseph Barbera, creators ofTom and Jerry

Next came in 1969,Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?,

Chapter IV
Top actors - 1.Leonardo DiCaprio

Date of Birth - 11 November 1974, Hollywood,

Los Angeles, California, USA

Baeketball diaries

Romeo + Juliet (1996)

Titanic(1997), to then become a leading man in

Hollywood blockbusters, made by
internationally renowned directors such as
Martin Scorsese and Christopher Nolan.

2.Morgan Freeman

Date of Birth - June 1, 1937 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA

Driving Miss Daisy,
The Shawshank Redemption,
Million Dollar Baby,
Unforgiven and
Batman Begin
etc

3.Angelina Jolie

Date of Birth - June 4, 1975 in Los Angeles, California, USA

Angelina Jolie is an Oscar-winning actress who became popular

after playing the title role in the

"Lara Croft" blockbuster movies,

Mr. &

Mrs. Smith (2005),

Wanted
Salt

(2008),

(2010) and

A Mighty

Heart.

4.Natalie Portman

Date of Birth - 9 June 1981, Jerusalem, Israel

Natalie received worldwide fame as Queen in Starr wars (1999).
Where the Heart Is (2000),
Closer (2004), for which she received an Oscar nomination.
She reprised her role as Padme Amidala in the last two episodes
of the Star Wars prequel trilogy: Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of
the Clones (2002) and Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the
Sith (2005).
She received an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for
Best Actress in Black Swan (2010).

5.Johnny Depp

Date of Birth: 9June 1963,Owensboro, Kentucky, USA

Pirates of the Caribbean (2003) - charming, conniving and roguish
Capt. Jack Sparrow. The film's enormous success has opened several
doors for his career and included an Oscar nomination.
He appeared as the central character in the Stephen King-based
movie, Secret Window (2004); as the kind-hearted novelist James
Barrie in the factually-based Finding Neverland (2004), where he costarred with Kate Winslet;
The Libertine (2004).
Depp collaborated again with Burton in a screen adaptation of Roald
Dahl's novel, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), and later in
Alice in Wonderland (2010) and Dark Shadows (2012).

CHAPTER V
TOP MOVIES -1. A Beautiful Mind

Is a 2001 Americanbiographicaldrama filmbased on the life

ofJohn Nash, aNobel Laureate in Economics.
The film opened in the United States cinemas on December 21,
2001. It went on to gross over $313 million worldwide and win
fourAcademy Awards, forBest Picture,Best Director,Best Adapted
ScreenplayandBest Supporting Actress. It was also nominated
forBest Actor,Best Film Editing,Best Makeup, andBest Original
Score.

2. Shawshank Redemption
The

Shawshank Redemptionis a 1994

Americandrama filmwritten and directed
byFrank Darabont, and starringTim
RobbinsandMorgan Freeman.

3. The Notebook
The

Notebookis a 2004
Americanromanticdrama filmdirected byNick
Cassavetesand based on the 1996novel of the
same nameby Nicholas Sparks. The film
starsRyan GoslingandRachel McAdamsas a
young couple who fall in love in the 1940s.

4. Titanic

Titanic is a 1997 American epic romantic disaster

film directed, written, co-produced, and co-edited by James
Cameron. A fictionalized account of the sinking of
the RMS Titanic, it stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate
Winslet as members of different social classes who fall in
love aboard the ship during its ill-fated maiden voyage.
Cameron's inspiration for the film came from his
fascination with shipwrecks; he felt a love story
interspersed with the human loss would be essential to
convey the emotional impact of the disaster. Production
began in 1995

5. The Age of Adaline

The

Age of Adalineis a 2015

Americanromancefantasyfilm about a woman
who stops aging after an accident at the age of
29. It was directed byLee Toland Kriegerand
written byJ. Mills GoodloeandSalvador
Paskowitz. The film starsBlake Lively,Michiel
Huisman,Kathy Baker,Amanda Crew,Harrison
Ford, andEllen Burstyn.

Another famous American Actors and Actresses

John Travolta, George Clooney, John Cusack, Julia Roberts, Liv Tyler, Lucy Liu, Liam Neeson, Matt Damon, Meg
Ryan, Meryl Streep, Nicholas Cage, Reese Witherspoon, Rene Zellweger, Jodie Foster, Jennifer Aniston, Kate Winslet,
Katie Holmes, Tom Cruise, Uma Thurman, Christopher Walken, Keanu Reeves, Kirsten Dunst, Leonardo di Caprio,
Jim Carrey, Goldie Hawn, Denzel Washington, Demi Moore, Robert de Niro, Cameron Diaz, Steve Buscemi, Charlie
Sheen, John Malkowich,

Ben Afflec, Ben Stiller, Gwyneth Paltrow, Sandra Bullock, Vincent Vaughn, Winona Ryder,
Woody Harrelson, Will Smith, Asthton Cutcher, Ashley Judd, Ann Hathaway, Alec Baldwin,
Adrien Brody, Adam Sandler, Adam Brody, Alicia Siverstone, Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Brad
Pitt,

CONCLUSION

The aim of this document was to otline the huge impact Hollywood had on the American movie industry,
globally speaking. The title of house of movies is well deserved and I couldnt agree more with the fact
that it has revolutionarized all the previously developped concepts about films and actors.

A movie such as A Bautiful Mind is a lesson of life due to the fact that it teaches you to never give up on
your dreams, no matter what. John Nash did it, he defeated his disease and managed to create new
mathematical theories.

Movies such as Titanic or The Notebook will never age and their popularity will never be forgotten.
Anyone should watch these kind of movies at least once in their lifetime, because they can improve your
knowledge about the world and make you understand the different meanings of life.

Andy, the main character from Shawshank Redemption prooves us that nothing is impossible if you
believe in yourself.

The American cartoons have improved peoples childhood and even as teenagers or as adults, they still
watch them with the same pleasure they did when they were children. I personally still do watch them
from time to time, because I enjoy remembering the good old times, when the only problem was it you
arrived home too late and you lost your favourite cartoons.

But, of courses, everything has its drawbacks,too. History changes, people change and of course the
production of movies fluctuates, too. We never know what changes are due to be made in the next years
in the filmmaking idustries.

Will they be good? Will they be bad? Only time will tell.

Thank You!