What are the Hollywood Hills in the United States used for?
It is a mountain in Hollywood with a large advertisement on it - Hollywood
Hollywood is located in Los Angeles, the second largest city in the United States of America. Located in southwestern California, on the east side of the Pacific Ocean along the coast of San Pedro Bay and Santa Monica Bay. The urban area is 1204.4 square kilometers and the population is 3.486 million (1990). Blacks and Mexicans account for about 17% and 15% of the total population, and about 1/3 of the residents speak Spanish. The large urban area includes Los Angeles County and parts of Orange and Ventura counties, as well as more than 80 large and small towns such as Beverly Hills, Pasadena, and Long Beach, with a total area of 10,567 square kilometers and a population of 10 million. Second only to the New York metropolitan area. The city is located in an open basin surrounded by mountains on three sides and facing the sea on one side. Except for some hills, the ground is flat with an average altitude of 84 meters. To the northeast and southeast are the San Gabriel Mountains and Santa Ana Mountains, which are densely forested. The climate is mild and pleasant, with an average temperature of 13.7℃ in January and 23.4℃ in July. The weather is mostly sunny, and the annual precipitation is only 357 mm, mainly winter rain.
It was originally an Indian pastoral village. Spanish colonists established a town here in 1781. It has been under the jurisdiction of Mexico since 1822. After the Mexican-American War in 1846, it became part of the United States of America. It was established as a city in 1850. The city grew as immigrants from the United States of America moved westward. In the 1870s and 1880s, the transcontinental Southern Pacific Railway and the Santa Fe Railway connecting the Midwest and the discovery and development of oil resources in nearby areas enabled the city to develop rapidly. At the beginning of the 20th century, water diversion through long-distance pipelines solved the city's water supply problem, and suburban agriculture flourished; the construction of the artificial port, the navigation of the Panama Canal and the rise of the Hollywood film industry accelerated urban development. Since the Second World War, modern industry has emerged, commerce, finance and tourism have prospered, immigrants have surged, and urban areas have continued to expand to all directions, becoming an emerging megacity in the United States of America.
The largest industrial center in the western United States of America, its manufacturing output accounts for about one-half of California's, ranking third in the country. The heavy and chemical industry is developed. The aircraft manufacturing industry occupies a prominent position. Among the more than 16,000 factories and enterprises in the large urban area, about 2,000 are engaged in manufacturing aircraft and their parts; Lockheed Corporation and Douglas Corporation, among the three major aircraft manufacturing companies in the United States of America, have separate in Burbank north of downtown and Santa Monica on the west shore. This is followed by industrial sectors such as oil extraction, oil processing and electronic instruments, steel, automobiles, shipbuilding, chemicals, and rubber. The light industry is mainly clothing, food, printing, etc., and the production of canned food, women's clothing and sportswear is world-famous. The industrial distribution is relatively scattered. Large aircraft manufacturing plants are built in the northwest and south of the city; Long Beach on the coast of San Pedro Bay is a comprehensive heavy and chemical industrial zone focusing on oil refining and shipbuilding; east of the city is the light textile industrial zone, and the southern suburbs are electronic instruments Industrial zone; the east is the steel industrial zone and there are many large power plants. Hollywood, northwest of the city, is home to more than 600 film and television studios. Suburban agriculture is developed and is rich in vegetables, citrus fruits, milk, eggs, meat and other livestock products. The commercial, financial and insurance industries account for 29% of the employees in the urban area. Banks, savings and credit institutions, insurance companies, etc. are located throughout the city. Wholesale and retail sales are second only to New York and Chicago.
Hollywood is a world-famous movie city today. But what is less known is that its founders were two people who had nothing to do with movies.
More than 100 years ago, Hollywood was an empty field on the map of California, United States of America. Mr. Wilcox, who was already 50 years old and became very rich because of his real estate business in Kansas, happened to meet the 21-year-old Deida on a train traveling to the West. The two fell in love at first sight, quickly got married, and then moved to Los Angeles.
On a holiday in February 1887, the couple went for an outing in the countryside. Mrs. Wilcox fell in love with a fertile land full of fig trees and wanted to "set up camp" here. Mr. Wilcox, who doted on his beloved wife, immediately paid for the 120-acre piece of land. Deida seemed to turn a blind eye to this area full of fig trees, so she named it Hollywood, which means "holly forest" in English. It turned out that Mrs. Wilcox's hometown was in Illinois, where she once owned a manor surrounded by holly groves. When she moved to the western United States to build a love nest with her husband, ***, she felt homesick.
Sixteen years later, when this became a city, the 177 residents who had the right to vote unanimously agreed to use "Holly Grove" as the name of the city. In the next 10 years, the film industry developed rapidly and vigorously. Hollywood is sunny, surrounded by mountains and rivers, with both grasslands and sand dunes. The mild and suitable climate conditions and superior geographical conditions are an ideal environment for film creation. Therefore, it attracted a large number of film practitioners.
In addition to natural conditions, in terms of subjective reasons, the most important factor in Hollywood's fame is the strong pressure from the movie trust company founded by inventor Edison. Edison is a famous inventor. He also has many inventions and design innovations in film equipment and holds corresponding patent rights. From 1897 to 1918, Edison provoked a dispute over film patent rights in the United States and went to court with many film manufacturers.
At the same time, he saw the development prospects of the film industry and used his trump card of film equipment to merge the nine major film companies in the eastern United States into his film patent company, thereby controlling the film market. Those producers who were unwilling to obey were looking for new ways to get rid of Edison's monopoly and start anew. At this time, a small studio (Elder Picture Company) that had been filming in Hollywood before Edison established the Motion Picture Patent Company provided information about Hollywood. This film studio, originally located in New Jersey in the eastern United States, rented a factory in Hollywood at a low cost and quickly produced the first Hollywood movie "Her Indian Hero". This film expanded Hollywood's popularity and attracted those who wanted to find their own way out. Many film producers, attracted by Hollywood's superior natural scenery and developed transportation conditions, came to Hollywood to start their own businesses. Edison's nemesis Carl Remu also made great progress in Hollywood and founded Universal Company, becoming the new movie king. On the contrary, Edison's Film Patent Company, which was the catalyst for Hollywood, only lasted for 10 years before it was declared bankrupt by a U.S. court as an illegal trust.
In 1907, director Francis Burgess led his film crew to Los Angeles to shoot "The Count of Monte Cristo." They found that the beautiful natural scenery, abundant light and suitable climate were a natural place for filming.
Beginning in 1909, the famous producer Griffith shot several films in Hollywood with natural backgrounds.
In October 1911, a group of film workers from New Jersey, led by a local photographer, came to a small inn called Blondou. They converted the rented inn into a movie theater What the company looks like. In this way, they created Nestor Pictures, Hollywood's first film studio.
Since 1912, many film companies have settled in Hollywood. Famous film companies include: Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM), Paramount, 20th Century Fox (20th Century Fox), Warner Brothers (Warner Brothers), RKO (Radio Keith Orpheum, referred to as RKO), Universal, United Artists, Columbia Pictures.
Today, Hollywood has a great symbolic significance in the culture of the United States of America. It can be said that the history of the development of Hollywood is the history of the development of movies in the United States of America. The films produced by Hollywood not only meet the needs of the film market in the United States of America, but are also exported to all parts of the world. They not only export the culture of the United States of America, but also bring huge profits to Hollywood investors.