Hollywood (1980)

Directed by

David Gill, Kevin Brownlow

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Length

1 season, 13 episodes

Rating

8.4 of 10 from 17 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary series traces the rise of the American silent film industry in the early 20th century. It covers how Hollywood studios were established and how they shaped culture during the 1910s and 1920s.

educationalnostalgicinformativemeasuredhistoricalreverentarchivalslow-paced

What happens

Hollywood (also known as Hollywood: A Celebration of the American Silent Film) is a British television documentary miniseries produced by Thames Television and originally broadcast on ITV in 1980. Written and directed by film historians Kevin Brownlow and David Gill, it explored the establishment and development of the Hollywood studios and their cultural impact during the silent film era of the 1910s and 1920s. At the 1981 BAFTA TV Awards, the series won for Best Original Television Music and was nominated for Best Factual Series, Best Film Editing and Best Graphics. The series has seldom been released on home video formats, apparently due to the complexity of obtaining home video rights to all of the film clips used. It is available on the Internet Archive. In 1995, Brownlow and Gill produced the followup series, Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood, which explores the rise of the silent film industry in Sweden, Germany, France and Great Britain. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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