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Hollywood ( [ˈhɒliwʊd]?) is een stadsdeel van Los Angeles in de Verenigde Staten. Het werd in 1857 gesticht als een onafhankelijke stad ten noordwesten van het centrum van Los Angeles. Het is voornamelijk bekend als filmstad en historisch centrum van de Amerikaanse filmindustrie door de aanwezigheid van al zijn studio’s, aanverwante ...
- 250.345
- Los Angeles County
- 64,6 km²
- Californië
Portaal. Televisie. Hollywood is een Amerikaanse drama miniserie. De show werd gecreëerd door Ryan Murphy en Ian Brennan. De zeven afleveringen werden gereleased op 1 mei 2020 op Netflix. De serie gaat over een groep acteurs en filmmakers uit de Gouden Periode van Hollywood net na de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Het verhaal is volledig fictief.
- 44-57 minuten
- Verenigde Staten
Hollywood. Coordinates: 34°06′N 118°20′W. The Hollywood sign. Hollywood Boulevard, as seen from the Kodak Theatre. Hollywood is a district in Los Angeles, California. It is very famous around the world as a place where movies and television series are made. It has many different attractions such as the Hollywood Walk of Fame and the ...
- History
- Geography
- Failed Trademarking Attempt
- Climate
- Demographics
- Radio and Television
- Government
- Education
- Annual Events
Initial development
H. J. Whitley, a real estate developer, arranged to buy the 480-acre (1.9 km2) E.C. Hurd ranch. Whitley shared his plans for the new town with General Harrison Gray Otis, publisher of the Los Angeles Times, and Ivar Weid, a prominent businessman in the area.[citation needed] Daeida Wilcox, who donated land to help in the development of Hollywood, learned of the name Hollywood from an acquaintance who owned an estate by that name in Illinois.Wilcox is quoted as saying, "I chose the name Hollyw...
Incorporation and merger
Hollywood was incorporated as a municipalityon November 14, 1903, by a vote of 88 for and 77 against. On January 30, 1904, the voters in Hollywood decided, 113 to 96, to banish the sale of liquor within the city, except for medicinal purposes. Neither hotels nor restaurants were allowed to serve wine or liquor before or after meals. In 1910, the city voted for a merger with Los Angeles in order to secure an adequate water supply and to gain access to the L.A. sewer system.
Motion picture industry
By 1912, major motion-picture companies had come West to set up production near or in Los Angeles. In the early 1900s, most motion picture camera and equipment patents were held by Thomas Edison's Motion Picture Patents Company in New Jersey, which often sued filmmakers to stop their productions. To escape this, filmmakers began moving to Los Angeles, where attempts to enforce Edison's patents were easier to evade. Also, the weather was ideal for filmmaking and there was quick access to vario...
According to the Mapping L.A. project of The Los Angeles Times, Hollywood is flanked by Hollywood Hills to the north, Los Feliz to the northeast, East Hollywood or Virgil Village to the east, Larchmont and Hancock Park to the south, Fairfax to the southwest, West Hollywood to the west, and Hollywood Hills Westto the northwest. Street limits of the ...
In 1994, Hollywood, Alabama, and ten other towns named Hollywood successfully fought an attempt by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerceto trademark the name and force same-named communities to pay royalties to it.
Like the rest of Los Angeles, Hollywood has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen: Csa) or dry-summer subtropical climate. Winters are typically mild and rainy, but there are still plenty of warm, sunny days in the winter, as well. Summers are hot, sunny and dry, with virtually no rain falling between April and October; while summer days can b...
The 2000 U.S. census counted 77,818 residents in the 3.51-square-mile (9.1 km2) Hollywood neighborhood—an average of 22,193 people per square mile (8,569 people/km2), the seventh-densest neighborhood in all of Los Angeles County. In 2008 the city estimated that the population had increased to 85,489. The median age for residents was 31, about the c...
KNX was the last radio station to broadcast from Hollywood before it left CBS Columbia Square for a studio in the Miracle Milein 2005. On January 22, 1947, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, KTLA, began operating in Hollywood. In December of that year, The Public Prosecutor became the first network television ser...
As a neighborhood within the Los Angeles city limits, Hollywood does not have its own municipal government. A person was appointed by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce to serve as an honorary "Mayor of Hollywood" for ceremonial purposes. Johnny Grantheld this position from 1980 until his death on January 9, 2008.
Hollywood residents aged 25 and older holding a four-year degree amounted to 28% of the population in 2000, about the same as in the county at large.
The Academy Awards are held in late February/early March (since 2004) of each year, honoring the preceding year in film. Prior to 2004, they were held in late March/early April. Since 2002, the Oscars have been held at their new home at the Dolby (formerly Kodak) Theaterat Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue. The annual Hollywood Christmas Para...
Hollywood is an American drama television miniseries starring an ensemble cast including David Corenswet, Darren Criss, Laura Harrier, Joe Mantello, Dylan McDermott, Jake Picking, Jeremy Pope, Holland Taylor, Samara Weaving, Jim Parsons, and Patti LuPone. Created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, it was released on Netflix on May 1, 2020.
t. e. The cinema of the United States, consisting mainly of major film studios (also known metonymously as Hollywood) along with some independent films, has had a large effect on the global film industry since the early 20th century. The dominant style of American cinema is classical Hollywood cinema, which developed from 1910 to 1962 and is ...
Hollywood is in southeastern Broward County, and includes about 5 to 6 miles (8.0 to 9.7 km) of Atlantic Ocean beach, interrupted briefly by a portion deeded to Dania Beach. Climate. Hollywood has a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen climate classification Af), with long, hot, humid, and rainy summers and short, warm, and dry winters.
