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Los AngelesA Brief History of Hollywood
A Brief History of Hollywood
- USA
- 2020
- 9 minutes
- Documentary Film
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Nate BarlowProducer :
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Los Angeles
A billboard. Simply a billboard.
Long before it became the symbol of the movie industry, the Hollywood Sign had another, more prosaic purpose — an (admittedly blockbuster-sized) advertisement for a housing development. Over the years, of course, the world took notice, and the status of the former Hollywoodland Sign evolved, as did the film industry that the soon-to-be Hollywood Sign came to represent. Beyond the show business iconography, however, the story of the Hollywood Sign — its ups & downs, modifications, decay, and reconstruction — is a reflection of the times, the story of a town, an industry, a country.
A Brief History of Hollywood interweaves these two histories, visually and aurally overlaying the advances in Hollywood filmmaking over a simulated time lapse of the life and times of the Hollywood Sign, two stories perpetually and irrevocably intertwined. Sometimes a sign is not simply a sign.
Long before it became the symbol of the movie industry, the Hollywood Sign had another, more prosaic purpose — an (admittedly blockbuster-sized) advertisement for a housing development. Over the years, of course, the world took notice, and the status of the former Hollywoodland Sign evolved, as did the film industry that the soon-to-be Hollywood Sign came to represent. Beyond the show business iconography, however, the story of the Hollywood Sign — its ups & downs, modifications, decay, and reconstruction — is a reflection of the times, the story of a town, an industry, a country.
A Brief History of Hollywood interweaves these two histories, visually and aurally overlaying the advances in Hollywood filmmaking over a simulated time lapse of the life and times of the Hollywood Sign, two stories perpetually and irrevocably intertwined. Sometimes a sign is not simply a sign.
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