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The movement picture industry was born in the year 1895 with the discovery of the motion picture camera by Louise Lumiere. In the first twenty years, the industry saw the making of short silent films. Now, it has changed more complex by the 1910s. This is when Charlie Chaplin’s silent films were also produced. During the time Charlie Chaplin Movies, director D. W. Griffith while searching for a suitable location for his film chanced upon a village called “Hollywood”. The first film to be shot in Hollywood was Griffith’s “In Old California”.
In 1915, Griffith used parallel editing for the first time in a film and the with the “Odessa Steps” sequence in the film “Potemkin” the use of special effects was born. Between 1910 and 1935, star-powered American studios like Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox, and Coumbia Pictures etc. came into being and signed contracts with actors to produce film after film. Each studio had its own specialized features. Before the 1930s, when parallel language versions of films were produced for the first time, the American studios’ productions were rejected due to their poor sound and synchronization techniques. After this, however, Hollywood was said to be in its golden age and produced some fascinating western slapstick comedies as also musical animated cartoons. Some of the best films produced in the era were Wuthering Heights, Gone with the Wind, Casablanca, etc. With television being introduced in the late 1940s, the studio system declined.
Hollywood came across with the new set of directors with different creativity. They introduced new filmy techniques and improved strategies to the audience by reforming existing one. They came with a new school thought of independent film making, churning out films that were inventive, original and sometimes also contradictory. Films such as Godfather, Jaws, Extra-Terrestrial added a new taste to Hollywood.
In the recent times, Hollywood has evolved new techniques and produced some of the greatest films for the world cinema.
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