3. What is Hollywood?
A: Hollywoodis a n
eighborhood in
the central
region of Los Angeles
California. It is notable
for its place as the
home of
the entertainment ind
ustry, including several
4. 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
5. 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
6. prominent film
industry began to
emerge, eventually
becoming the most
dominant and
recognizable in the
world.
The History of
Hollywood:
7. A: 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
8. 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
9. became the capital of
the film industry.
Hollywood movie
studios, 1922
Director D. W. Griffith
was the first to make a
motion picture in
Hollywood. His 17-
minute short film In Old
10. 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,
11. 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.
12. The first studio in
Hollywood, the Nestor
Company, was
established by the New
Jersey–based Centaur
Company in a
roadhouse at 6121
Sunset Boulevard (the
corner of Gower), in
October 1911.
13. Four major film
companies –
Paramount, Warner
Bros., RKO, and
Columbia – had studios
in Hollywood, as did
several minor
companies and rental
studios. In the 1920s,
Hollywood was the fifth
largest industry in the
14. nation. Hollywood
became known as
Tinseltown and Movie
Biz City because of the
glittering image of the
movie industry.
Hollywood has since
become a major center
for film study in the
United States.
15. The name "Hollywood"
is often applied to any
film or TV production
location within Greater
Los Angeles, whether
or not it is physically
located within
Hollywood. For
example, from the time
it relocated from New
York in 1972 until its
16. host retired in 1992,
The Tonight Show
Starring Johnny Carson
was announced as
being broadcast "from
Hollywood" when in
truth it originated from
a studio facility in
Burbank, California.
Similarly, Metro-
Goldwyn-Mayer's
17. storied film studio
facility, associated with
the Golden Age of
Hollywood (and today
known as Sony Pictures
Studios) is actually
located in Culver City, a
number of miles from
Hollywood. Today, only
two of the six major
film studios are actually
18. based in Los Angeles,
and only one of them,
Paramount, is still
located in Hollywood.
Reason(s) for choosing
Hollywood?
A: The reason I chosen
Hollywood is that it
compliments my film’s
19. genre in a number of
ways. I have chosen
Hollywood because it
has produced a number
of movies related to
the genre of my film
and it also has focused
on the core subject of
my film which is
Homosexuality and
Transgenderedness.
20. Hollywood has
produced a number of
films where it portrays
the problems and
shame a Homosexual
or Transgendered
person faces
throughout his life.
Hollywood has been
21. successful in delivering
their message about
Homosexuals which is
the problems they
endure by the
community they live in
and how hard it is to
confess to their loved
ones and how they are
treated by others in the
society.
