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In early 1910, the Company sent a biographer director DW Griffith with his troupe, consisting of actors Blanche Sweet, Lillian Gish, Mary Pickford, Lionel Barrymore and others in the West Bank. They started shooting at the free area in the downtown area. The company decided to explore new territories and traveled five miles (8km) north to the small village of Hollywood, which was attractive and hospitality company took that eliminates their movie. Then Griffith took the very first film in Hollywood movie titled "In Old California" melodrama with the action on the territory of the Mexican colony of California in the 1800s. The first studio in Hollywood was founded Centaur, located in New Jersey, who wanted to shoot westerns in California. They rented an abandoned roadhouse at 6121 Sunset Boulevard at the corner of Gower Street, and turned it into a movie studio in October 1911, calling it Nestor Studio in honor of the western branch of their company. Later the building became a Hollywood film lab, which is now called Hollywood Digital Laboratory. The first feature film made in the studio Hollywood, in 1914, was the film "The Squaw Man" created by Cecil B. DeMille and Oscar Apfel. Feature films, by constructing in Los Angeles to "Husband Indian" - a movie "From Dusk Till Dawn" (1913) and "The Sea Wolf" (1913). Before 1915, the majority of American films made in Los Angeles. Four major film companies, Paramount, Warner Bros., RKO Pictures and Columbia were studios in Hollywood, as well as in several smaller companies. Thus began the history of Hollywood as the center of the global film industry, in 2010 it will be 100 years.

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1. "Birth of a Nation" - became the first full-length thin. Film of Griffin in 1914.





2. Al Jolson (1886-1950) in the film `` Alan Kroslanda Jazz pevets``.



3. Grauman's Chinese Theater (1953).



4. Tony Curtis and Julie Adams (1956).



5. Filming 'Bardelys the Magnificent'.



6. Directed by George Stevens on the film `` Gigant``.



7. 'The Cameraman' - one of the last silent films, May 1928.



8. British actor Bob Hope jokingly trying to take away from Marlon Brando's Oscar.



9. Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell.



10. Michael Jackson and the Jackson Five (1971).



11. Elvis.



12. Hollywood director, producer and screenwriter Billy Wilder (1940).



13. Hollywood directors of the 1910s.



14. Marilyn Monroe (1947).



15. Actress Gloria Swanson.



16. On the film director Rene Adora.



17. George Cukor, King Vidor and Istvan Szabo.



18. Bernard Shaw, actress Marion Davies, Meir Louis and Clark Gable (1933).



19. The director Coppola at a press conference during the filming of «One From The Heart».



20. Star comedic silent films Buster Keaton (1928).



21. King Vidor (1928).



22. Advertising of open-air cinema "Olympic" in Los Angeles.



23. It began Warner Brothers West Coast Studio (1923).



24. 1964 - 36 Academy awards ceremony.



25. Directed by John Huston (1951).



26. Universal City Studios.



27. One of the many theaters in Hollywood (1951).



28. Directed by Ruben Mamulyan who directed `` sign Zorro`` (1930).



29. The director of Turkish origin Elia Kazan and German actress Marlene Dietrich (1954).



30. Protection of Hollywood studios.



31. Office broadcaster CBS (1951).



32. Office broadcaster NBC (1951).



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