In Old California, a short film filmed entirely in Hollywood was released in 1910. The first movie studio opened on Sunset Boulevard in 1911. Many major motion picture studios had relocated from the East Coast to Hollywood by 1915.
Hollywood, often known as Tinseltown, is a district in Los Angeles, California, United States, that is associated with the Film industry. It is bordered on the east by Hyperion Avenue and Riverside Drive, on the south by Beverly Boulevard, on the north by the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains, and on the west by Beverly Hills (west).
The image of Hollywood as the creator of tinseled cinematic dreams has been engraved globally since the early 1900s when moviemaking pioneers discovered in southern California an ideal blend of moderate climate, plenty of sunshine, diversified topography, and a vast labor market.
The first house in Hollywood was an adobe structure built in Los Angeles in 1853 when it was still a small town in the new state of California. Harvey Wilcox, a Kansas prohibitionist who envisioned a city based on his sober religious values, mapped out Hollywood as a real-estate subdivision in 1887.
The ‘Father of Hollywood,’ real estate magnate H.J. Whitley, developed Hollywood into a wealthy and popular residential enclave. Whitley was in charge of installing telephone, electric, and gas lines in the new suburb at the turn of the century. Residents of the place opted to merge with Los Angeles in 1910 due to a lack of water supplies.
The Count of Monte Cristo, one of the first storytelling films, was completed in 1908 after production began in Chicago. In 1911, a location on Sunset Boulevard was transformed into Hollywood’s first studio, and by the following year, more than 20 firms were producing movies in the region.
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