WORLD CINEMA EMPIRE

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WORLD CINEMA EMPIRE
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HOLLYWOOD

• The world capital of film entertainment Los
  Angeles has been a lot of things over the past
  100 years.First it was a little city with orange
  forest and great weather

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• But, one day in 1908 a group of people from
  Chicago came to Los Angeles to shoot a film.
  Since that day a lot of directors, producers,
  actors and thousands of other workers have been
  coming to Los Angeles. In 1911 the first studio
  appeared in Hollywood.

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• In the 1920s Hollywood made 80 of the worlds
  films. Silent and black-and-white films of those
  early years starring Mary Pickford and Charlie
  Chaplin were forced out by sound films in the
  middle of the 1920s.

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CHARLIE CHAPLIN

• Charlie Chaplin (Charles Spencer) is an
  English Film actor and director. He made his
  reputation as a tramp with a small black
  moustache, bowler hat, and twirling cane in
  silent comedies from the mid-1910s, including
  The Rink(1916),
• The Kid(1920),
• The Gold Rush(1925)

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MARY PICFORD

• Mary Pickford (1893-1979) is the stage name
  of
• Gladys Mary Smith. She was a Canadian-born
  actress. The first star of silent films, she was
  known as Americas Sweetheart, and played the
  roles of innocent girls into her thirties.

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• Full-length films came up to take place of
  short films. And the first colour film, Gone With
  the Wind, was shot in 1939. This film brought a
  great success to Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable who
  starred in the film.

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VIVIEN LEIGH

• Vivien Leigh(1913-1967) is the stage name of
  Vivien Mary Hartley. She was Indian-born English
  actress. She appeared on the stage in London and
  New York, and won Academy Awards for her
  performances as
• Scarlett OHara in
• Gone with the Wind (1939) and as Blanche du
  Bois in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951). Her
  other films include Lady Hamilton (1941), Anna
  Karenina (1948).

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CLARK GABLE

• Clark Gable (1901-1960) is an American film
  actor. He was a star for more than 30 years in 90
  films. He was celebrated for romantic roles such
  as
• Rhett Butler in
• Gone with the Wind(1939).

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• The number of the studios grew very quickly.
  They combined in large corporations and now the
  biggest film companies are MGM, Paramount,
• 20th Century Fox, Columbia Pictures,
  Warner Bros, and Universal.

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• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) is a US
  film-production company. It is one of the most
  powerful Hollywood studios of the 1930s-1950s. It
  produced such prestige films as David Copperfield
  (1935) and The Wizard of Oz(1939). Among its
  stars were Greta Garbo, James Stewart, Elizabeth
  Taylor.

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• Paramount Picture is a US film production and
  distribution company. It was founded in 1912.
  Paramount was a major studio from the silent days
  of the cinema. It was adept discovering new
  talents.

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• 20th Century Fox is a US film-production
  company. It was formed in 1935. The company made
  high-quality films and it is still a major
  studio.

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• ??lumbia Pictures is a US film production
  and ditribution company. It was founded in 1924.
  It grew out of a smaller company founded in 1920
  by Harry Corn. Coluambia became a major studio by
  the 1940s.

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• Warner Bros is a US production company. It was
  founded in 1923 by Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack
  Warner. It become one of the major Hollywood
  studios after releasing the first talking film,
  The Jazz Singer (1927).

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• Universal is a US film studio. It was founded
  in 1915. In the 1970s and 1980s Universal became
  one of the industrys leaders with box-office
  hits from the producer and director Steve
  Spielberg such as ET (1982) and Back to the
  Future (1985).

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CHECK YOURSELF

• 1. In 1908 a group of people from Chicago came to
  Los Angeles to
• shoot films grow oranges write books.
  
• 2. The world capital of filmed entertainment is
• Los Angeles New York
  Washington D.C.
• 3. The first studio appeared in Hollywood in
• 1912 1921
  1911.
• 4. In the 1920s Hollywood made of the worlds
  films.
• 80 60 90.
• 5. Mary Pick ford and Charlie Chaplin were the
  Famous actors of films.
• silent and black-and-white sound
  color.
• 6. He first colour film,Gone With the Wind, was
  shot in
• 1939 1929 1919.