Hollywood is the world's most famous urban district, which is part of Los Angeles. Owes its fame to the development of the film industry located here, most famous film studios. Today,
however, Hollywood celebrity passes away, because most of the plant
because of the need for a place moved to areas outside the city. District
in the era of the mega film production is too small to meet the
requirements of the industry, because there currently is carried out
only some of the pre-movie activities, such as writing screenplays or
making montages studio.
Hollywood history goes back to the late nineteenth century, when Harvey Henderson Wilcox created their own city here called Hollywood invented by his wife. The project itself was one of Wilcox and covered 0.6 km2. Conditions in Los Angeles are excellent, because the sun always shines and is a favorable climate for movies. Natural light, no rain, mountain and sea views with luxurious beaches, and the city itself very spectacular thanks to locate on the hills meant that there began to move studios. The first studio was founded in 1911 with the name Nestor Studio. Another, which were created in the following years, the Fox, Loew's Incorporated, which is today's Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount Pictures, Radio-Keith-Orpheum, and Warner Bros. Pictures. All of these labels also have their own theater, where films were made presentations. Besides them, there arose also less significant labels Universal Studios, Columbia Pictures and United Artists. Although if they did not have great significance today belong to the movie moguls. Apart from the five major record companies also worked here independent producers, which include Samuel Goldwyn, Donald O. Selznick, Walt Disney and Walter Wagner.
Walk of Fame
Particularly well-known place in Hollywood is, of course, the Hollywood Walk of Frame, known in Poland as the Walk of Fame. It is located on Hollywood Boulevard. Alley is known primarily from the fact that it contains a star embedded in the sidewalk with the names of the biggest names in the art world. Today, as the stars have lost their importance, and are already other places where artists exhibit their hand prints there, but the beginnings Avenue in the 60's was a time when you get there the place was a real prestige. The avenue of their stars has 2,400 celebrities. The first star appeared in 1960 to Joanne Woodward. The area is also famous cinema Kodak Theatre, where every year the Oscars are awarded trophies.
Studios
As Hollywood continues to have established the largest film industry moguls. Are located where all the biggest and best-known record labels, reigns among them, 20th Century Fox, the oldest plant in the city. Next to it is usadowiły Paramount Pictures, Columbia Pictures, TriStar Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Unioversal Studios, Warner Bros. Pictures. Entertainment and a number of other less-known manufacturer.
