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History of hollywood film industry
History of hollywood film industryd States cinema has had a profound effect on cinema across the world since the early 20th century. Its history is sometimes separated into four main periods: the silent film era, Classical Hollywood cinema, New Hollywood, and the contemporary period (after 1980).
In 1878, Eadweard Muybridge demonstrated the power of photography to capture motion. In 1896, the world's first commercial motion picture exhibition was given in New York City, using Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope. The next year saw the first commercial screening of a projected film, also in New York, and the United States was in the forefront of sound film's development in the following decades. Since the early twentieth century, the U.S. film industry has largely been based in and around Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. Picture City, FL was also a planned site for a movie picture production center in the 1920s, but due to the devastating hurricane of 1928, the idea collapsed and Picture City was returned back to the original name of Hobe Sound. Director D. W. Griffith was central to the development of film grammar and Orson Welles's Citizen Kane (1941) is frequently cited in critics' polls as the greatest film of all time. American screen actors like John Wayne and Marilyn Monroe have become iconic figures, while producer/entrepreneur Walt Disney was a leader in both animated film and movie merchandising. The major films studios of Hollywood are the primary source of the most commercially successful movies in the world, such as Star Wars (1977) and Titanic (1997), and the products of Hollywood today dominate the global film industry.
Rise of Hollywood
In early 1910, director D.W. Griffith was sent by the Biograph Company to the west coast with his acting troupe, consisting of actors Blanche Sweet, Lillian Gish, Mary Pickford, Lion Barrymore , and others. They started filming on a vacant lot near Georgia Street in downtown Los Angeles. While there, the company decided to explore new territories, traveling several miles north to Hollywood, a little village that was friendly and enjoyed the movie company filming there. Griffith then filmed the first movie ever shot in Hollywood, in old California, a Biograph melodrama about California in the 1800s, while it belonged to Mexico. Biograph stayed there for months and made several films before returning to New York. After hearing about Biograph's success in Hollywood, in 1913 many movie-makers headed west to avoid the fees imposed by Thomas Edison, who owned patents on the movie-making process. In Los Angeles, California, the studios and Hollywood grew. Before World War I, movies were made in several U.S. cities, but filmmakers gravitated to southern California as the industry developed. They were attracted by the mild climate and reliable sunlight, which made it possible to film movies outdoors year-round, and by the varied scenery that was available. There are several starting points for American cinema, but it was Griffith's controversial 1915 epic Birth of a Nation that pioneered the filming vocabulary that still dominates celluloid to this day.
Golden Age of Hollywood
During the so-called Golden Age of Hollywood, which lasted from the end of the silent era in American cinema in the late 1920s to the late 1950s, thousands of movies were issued from the Hollywood studios. The start of the Golden Age was arguably when The Jazz Singer was released in 1927, ending the silent era and increasing box-office profits for films as sound was introduced to feature films. Most Hollywood pictures adhered closely to a formula - Western, slapstickcomedy, musical, animated cartoon, biopic (biographical picture) - and the same creative teams often worked on films made by the same studio. For example, Cedric Gibbons and Herbert Stothart always worked on MGM films, Alfred Newman worked at twenth Century Fox for twenty years, Cecil B. De Mille's films were almost all made at Paramount, and director Henry King's films were mostly made for Twentieth Century Fox. At the same time, one could usually guess which studio made which film, largely because of the actors who appeared in it; MGM, for example, claimed it had contracted "more stars than there are in heaven." Each studio had its own style and characteristic touches which made it possible to know this - a trait that does not exist today. Yet each movie was a little different, and, unlike the craftsmen who made cars, many of the people who made movies were artists. For example, To Have and Have Not(1944) is famous not only for the first pairing of actors Humphrey Bogart (1899–1957) and Lauren Bacall (1924–) but also for being written by two future winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature: Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961), the author of the novel on which the script was nominally based, and William Faulkner (1897–1962), who worked on the screen adaptation.
In 1878, Eadweard Muybridge demonstrated the power of photography to capture motion. In 1896, the world's first commercial motion picture exhibition was given in New York City, using Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope. The next year saw the first commercial screening of a projected film, also in New York, and the United States was in the forefront of sound film's development in the following decades. Since the early twentieth century, the U.S. film industry has largely been based in and around Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. Picture City, FL was also a planned site for a movie picture production center in the 1920s, but due to the devastating hurricane of 1928, the idea collapsed and Picture City was returned back to the original name of Hobe Sound. Director D. W. Griffith was central to the development of film grammar and Orson Welles's Citizen Kane (1941) is frequently cited in critics' polls as the greatest film of all time. American screen actors like John Wayne and Marilyn Monroe have become iconic figures, while producer/entrepreneur Walt Disney was a leader in both animated film and movie merchandising. The major films studios of Hollywood are the primary source of the most commercially successful movies in the world, such as Star Wars (1977) and Titanic (1997), and the products of Hollywood today dominate the global film industry.
Rise of Hollywood
In early 1910, director D.W. Griffith was sent by the Biograph Company to the west coast with his acting troupe, consisting of actors Blanche Sweet, Lillian Gish, Mary Pickford, Lion Barrymore , and others. They started filming on a vacant lot near Georgia Street in downtown Los Angeles. While there, the company decided to explore new territories, traveling several miles north to Hollywood, a little village that was friendly and enjoyed the movie company filming there. Griffith then filmed the first movie ever shot in Hollywood, in old California, a Biograph melodrama about California in the 1800s, while it belonged to Mexico. Biograph stayed there for months and made several films before returning to New York. After hearing about Biograph's success in Hollywood, in 1913 many movie-makers headed west to avoid the fees imposed by Thomas Edison, who owned patents on the movie-making process. In Los Angeles, California, the studios and Hollywood grew. Before World War I, movies were made in several U.S. cities, but filmmakers gravitated to southern California as the industry developed. They were attracted by the mild climate and reliable sunlight, which made it possible to film movies outdoors year-round, and by the varied scenery that was available. There are several starting points for American cinema, but it was Griffith's controversial 1915 epic Birth of a Nation that pioneered the filming vocabulary that still dominates celluloid to this day.
Golden Age of Hollywood
During the so-called Golden Age of Hollywood, which lasted from the end of the silent era in American cinema in the late 1920s to the late 1950s, thousands of movies were issued from the Hollywood studios. The start of the Golden Age was arguably when The Jazz Singer was released in 1927, ending the silent era and increasing box-office profits for films as sound was introduced to feature films. Most Hollywood pictures adhered closely to a formula - Western, slapstickcomedy, musical, animated cartoon, biopic (biographical picture) - and the same creative teams often worked on films made by the same studio. For example, Cedric Gibbons and Herbert Stothart always worked on MGM films, Alfred Newman worked at twenth Century Fox for twenty years, Cecil B. De Mille's films were almost all made at Paramount, and director Henry King's films were mostly made for Twentieth Century Fox. At the same time, one could usually guess which studio made which film, largely because of the actors who appeared in it; MGM, for example, claimed it had contracted "more stars than there are in heaven." Each studio had its own style and characteristic touches which made it possible to know this - a trait that does not exist today. Yet each movie was a little different, and, unlike the craftsmen who made cars, many of the people who made movies were artists. For example, To Have and Have Not(1944) is famous not only for the first pairing of actors Humphrey Bogart (1899–1957) and Lauren Bacall (1924–) but also for being written by two future winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature: Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961), the author of the novel on which the script was nominally based, and William Faulkner (1897–1962), who worked on the screen adaptation.
Abhishek bachchan(Biography)
Abhishek bachchan
Date of Birth: 5th February, 1976.
Nickname: Junior B, A B baby.Address: Abhishek Bachchan, Pratiksha, 10th Road, J.V.P.D. Scheme Mumbai 400 049
Height: 6' 3" (1.91 m)
Education: Graduate, Aiglon College (Switzerland) Debut Film: "Refugee"
Film Awards: IIFA Awards Filmfare Best Supporting Actor for "Sarkar" Filmfare Best Supporting Actor for "Yuva" Star Screen Best Comedian Award for "Bunty Aur Babli.
Date of Birth: 5th February, 1976.
Nickname: Junior B, A B baby.
Height: 6' 3" (1.91 m)
Education: Graduate, Aiglon College (Switzerland) Debut Film: "Refugee"
Film Awards: IIFA Awards Filmfare Best Supporting Actor for "Sarkar" Filmfare Best Supporting Actor for "Yuva" Star Screen Best Comedian Award for "Bunty Aur Babli.
Mini BiographyAbhishek Bachchan is son of the famous Bollywood mega-stars Jaya Bachchan and Amitabh Bachchan. Abhishek Bachchan is married to Aishwarya Rai, the former Miss World and Bollywood heartthrob. Abhishek Bachhan started his filmy career with the movie "Refugee" opposite Kareena Kapoor. Refugee was not a success at the box office. In the next four years after refugee Abhisek did many more movies without any success at the box office. Abhishek Bachchan proved his mettle as an actor in Mani Ratnam's "Yuva". The same year, he gave his first major hit film "Dhoom". His next released films "Bunty Aur Bably", "Dus", "Bluffmaster" and "Sarkar" were also successful at the Box Office. Abhishek went on to win Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award for "Sarkar". His dance sequence with Amitabh Bachchan in the song "Kajra Re………." became a rage. Abishekh Bachhan also sang in the films "Bluffmaster" and "Dhoom".Abhishek's recent released film "Guru" was successful at box office; rather it was his first solo hit film. He also received good reviews for his performance in the movie "Laga Chunari Mein Daag".
FilmographyLaaga Chunari Mein Daag, Jhoom Barabar Jhoom , Shootout at Lokhandwala , Guru , Dhoom 2, Umrao Jaan , Kabhi Alvida Naa kehna , Bluff Master, Vasundhara , Salaam Namaste, Sarkar, Bunty Aur Babli , Antar Mahal, Dus, Dhoom, Phir Milenge, Yuva, Hum Tum , Naach , Rakht, Run, Kuch Naa Kaho, LOC Kargil, Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon, Mumbai Se Aaya Mera Dost, Zameen , Desh, Haan Maine Bhi Pyaar Kiya, Om Jai Jagadish, Shararat, Bas Itna Sa Khwaab Hai, Dhaai Akshar Prem Ke, Refugee and Tera Jadoo Chal Gayaa
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