3. • Hollywood has a long and
interesting story…
• The world capital of filmed
entertainment Los Angeles has
been a lot of things over the past
100 years.
• Many years ago it was just a
little city with excellent weather
and orange forest.
4. • In 1908 a group of
people from Chicago
came here to make a
film.
• Since that day
a lot of
directors,producers,
actors and thousands of
other workers have
been coming to Los
Angeles.
5. First studio
• In 1911 the first studio appeared in Hollywood.
• In 1920 Hollywood made 80 % of word’s films.
6. • At the beginning there
were made silent and
black and-white films
starring Mary Pickford
and Charlie Chaplin.
• Then they were
forced out by sound
films in the middle of
the 1920.
7. First Colour Film
• Full-length films replaced short film.
• “Gone with the Wind “ was the first colour film,was shot
1939.This film brought a great success to Vivien Leigh
and Clark Gable who starred in it.
• The number of studious grew very quickly.
9. • The first genres of American
films were comedy,melodrama
and western,later adventure and
historical films appeared.
• But now how we know the range
of genres is much richer.
• World-faimous Hollywood got the
name of the factory of dreams.
10. The Walk of Fame
• Comprises more than 2,500
five-pointed stars embedded
in the sidewalks along
15 blocks of Hollywood
Boulevard and three blocks
of Vine
Street in Hollywood, California.
11. The emblems symbolize five categories within
the entertainment industry:
• Radio
microphone represe
nting broadcast radio.
• Classic film
camera representing
motion pictures.
12. • Phonograph
record representing audio
recording or music.
• Television
receiver representing broad
cast television.
• Comedy/tragedy
masks representing theatre/
live performance.
13. •Footprints
• There are nearly 200
Hollywood celebrity
handprints, footprints,
and autographs in
the concrete of the
theatre's forecourt.
14. • Variations of this
honored tradition are
imprints of the:
• eyeglasses of Harold Lloyd
• the cigar of Groucho Marx
• the magic wands of Harry
Potter
• the facial profile of John
Barrymore
• noses of Jimmy Durante
15. Footprints
• Many older entries
contain personal
messages .
• Footprints are outside
of the Chinese
Theatre and everyone
who want may visit
this gallery.
16. Academy Awards
• The Academy Awards,
commonly known as The
Oscars,is an annual American
awards ceremony honoring
achievements in the film industry.
• Winners are awarded the
statuette, officially the Academy
Award of Merit, that is much
better known by its nickname
Oscar.
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