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.
Hollywood is where the majority of movie productions in the United States are based. Comprising of a huge network of movie studios, stars and personnel, the business is spread all across Los Angeles and the surrounding area.
Throughout the world, Hollywood is considered to be at the centre of the movie industry. It is situated in the Downtown area of Los Angeles. The majority of the movie stars reside around the Hollywood hills area. The world?s eyes are turned to the area for the spectacle and glamour surrounding the movies.
Hollywood started off when D.W. Griffith first came to the area in 1910 with a film crew to shoot some footage of the area. Before long they had adopted a vacant lot in the downtown area of Los Angeles. Then they began exploring the areas around Los Angeles and found that the area was very quick to adapt to their needs. The temperate weather and endless hours of sunshine were a great incentive to shoot there also.
Griffith then shot the film In Old California, which is widely considered to be the first ever film to be shot in Hollywood. The movie company decided to stay there for some more time to shoot several of their films, before eventually returning to New York.
In 1913, many more moviemakers started heading into California to take advantage of the ideal filming conditions the area had to offer. It was at this time that the Hollywood film industry began and is regarded as its birth.
The Nestor Studios, which were founded in 1911, are told to be the first movie studios that settled there. Hollywood grew at an alarming pace and so strong that the are around Los Angeles became extremely associated with movies and the studio system.
It wasn?t until World War I that Hollywood really became the place we now know it for. By the 1950?s most of the country?s movie industry had moved to the area and became the film capital of the world. The music industry also began to follow suite shortly after.
A huge sign that read ?Hollywoodland? was constructed on the hills around the area in 1923. Originally intended as an advertisement for housing developments in the area, it was soon left abandoned and allowed to rot away. It wasn?t until 1949 that the sign was repaired and moved to Mount Lee, where the last part of the sign was removed leaving ?Hollywood?.
Everyone sees Hollywood as the film capital of the world, and all eyes turn to the town for it?s stars and showbiz, especially for special occasions like the Oscars.
