Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood — Season 1, Episode 2: The Birth of Hollywood (1907-1920)
Documentary • 60 min • 1 season, 7 episodes • ★ 5.4/10
Episode synopsis
California was quickly recognized as the ideal setting for the American film industry, with its relative freedom from patent problems, constant sunshine and varied geography. As early as 1909, moviemakers were hard at work in Hollywood, including William Selig, who had founded one of the country's first movie studios in Chicago. In 1913 Jesse Lasky, Samuel Goldwyn and Cecil B. DeMille formed a filmmaking company and established themselves among the first generation of Hollywood moguls, producing one of the first feature-length films in the U.S., The Squaw Man (1914).
About Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood
Each installment focuses on a different era of American movie history, from the invention of the first moving pictures to the revolutionary, cutting-edge films of the 1960s.