What is Hollywood Hill in America?

This is a mountain in Hollywood with a big advertisement on it-Hollywood.

Hollywood is located in Los Angeles, the second largest city in the United States. Located in the southwest of California, USA, along the coast of San Pedro Bay and Santa Monica Bay on the east side of the Pacific Ocean. Urban area 1204.4 square kilometers, population 3.486 million (1990). Blacks and Mexicans account for 17% and 15% of the total population respectively, and about13 of the residents speak Spanish. Metropolitan area includes Los Angeles County, part of Orange County and Ventura County, and more than 80 towns such as Beverly Hills, Pasadena and Long Beach, with a total area of 10567 square kilometers and a population of1000000, which is second only to 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 elevation of 84 meters. In the northeast and southeast are Mount St. Gabrielde and Mount Santa Ana, with dense forests. The climate is mild and pleasant,1the average temperature in October 13.7℃, and the average temperature in July is 23.4℃. What a sunny day, the annual precipitation is only 357 mm, mainly winter rain.

It was originally an Indian pastoral village. Spanish colonists built a town here on 178 1. It has been under the jurisdiction of Mexico since 1822. 1846 belonged to the United States of America after the US-Mexico War. Established on 1850. Cities gradually developed in the process of emigration and development from the United States of America to the west. 65438+ In 1970s and 1980s, the transcontinental South Pacific Railway and Santa Fe Railway connecting the central and western regions arrived one after another, and with the discovery and development of oil resources in nearby areas, the city achieved rapid development. At the beginning of the 20th century, long-distance pipeline water diversion solved the problem of urban water supply, and suburban agriculture flourished. The completion of artificial port, the navigation of Panama Canal and the rise of Hollywood film industry have accelerated the development of this city. Since World War II, modern industry has been stubborn, commerce, finance and tourism have flourished, immigrants have surged, and urban areas have been expanding around, becoming a new mega-city in the United States of America.

The largest industrial center in the western United States, the manufacturing output value accounts for about half of California, ranking third in the country. Heavy chemical industry is developed. Aircraft manufacturing occupies a prominent position. Of the 65,438+600,000 factories and enterprises in the capital circle, about 2,000 are engaged in the manufacture of aircraft and its parts. Lockheed and Douglas, the three major American aircraft manufacturing companies, are located in burbank in the north of the city and Santa Monica in the west bank respectively. Followed by petroleum exploitation, petroleum processing and electronic instruments, steel, automobile, shipbuilding, chemistry, rubber and other industrial sectors. Light industry is dominated by clothing, food and printing, and the production of canned food, women's wear and sportswear is world-famous. The industrial distribution is relatively scattered. The large aircraft factory is built in the northwest and south of the city; Long Beach along the San Pedro Bay is a comprehensive heavy chemical industrial zone with oil refining and shipbuilding as the main industries. The eastern part of the urban area is a textile industrial zone, and the southern suburb is an electronic instrument industrial zone; East is the iron and steel industrial zone, with many large power plants. Hollywood in the northwest of the city is home to more than 600 film and television studios. Agriculture in the suburbs is developed, rich in vegetables, citrus fruits and livestock products such as milk, eggs and meat. Commerce, finance and insurance are concentrated in 29% employees in metropolitan areas, and banks, savings and credit institutions and insurance companies are all over the city. Wholesale and retail sales are second only to new york and Chicago.

Hollywood is a famous movie city in the world today. But little known is that its founders are two people who have nothing to do with movies.

100 years ago, on the map of California, Hollywood was blank. At the age of 50, Mr. Wilcock, who became rich by doing real estate business in Kansas, happened to meet Dai Yida, 2 1 year-old, on a train trip to the west. They fell in love at first sight, got married soon, and then moved to Los Angeles.

1887 On a holiday in February, the couple went for an outing in the suburbs. Mrs. willcocks fell in love with this fertile land full of fig trees at first sight and wanted to "camp" here. Mr. willcocks, who dotes on his wife, immediately bought this land with an area of 65,438+020 mu. This fig tree with eyes, Dai Yida seems to be blind, but it is named Hollywood, which means "Holly Woods" in English. It turns out that Mrs Wilcock's hometown is in Illinois, where she once owned a manor surrounded by holly trees. Homesickness arose when she moved to the western United States to build a love nest with her husband.

After 16, when it becomes a city, 177 the residents who voted unanimously agreed to use "Holly Woods" as the city name. In the following 10 years, the film industry developed rapidly and vigorously. Hollywood is sunny, surrounded by mountains and rivers, with grasslands and sand dunes, mild and suitable climate and superior geographical conditions, which is an ideal environment for film creation. Therefore, it attracted a large number of filmmakers.

Apart from natural conditions, the most important factor for Hollywood's fame is the strong pressure from the film trust company founded by the inventor Edison. Edison was a famous inventor. He also has many inventions and innovations in film equipment, and has corresponding patents. From 1897 to 19 18, Edison provoked a film patent dispute in the United States and went to court with many film manufacturers. At the same time, he grasped the development prospect of the film industry, and used his trump card of film equipment to merge nine major film companies in the eastern United States into his own film patent company, thus controlling the film market. Those unwilling producers are looking for new ways to get rid of Edison's monopoly and start a new stove. At this time, a small studio (Presbyterian Film Company) that Edison had been shooting movies in Hollywood before he established the film 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 price and quickly produced the first Hollywood film "Her Indian Hero", which expanded the popularity of Hollywood. Those filmmakers who want to find their own way out are attracted by Hollywood's superior natural location and developed traffic conditions, and they have come to Hollywood to start their own businesses. Edison's arch-rival, Carl remus, also built a big house in Hollywood, founded Universal Pictures and became a new movie king. On the contrary, Edison's film patent company, as a Hollywood accelerant, went bankrupt after only 10 years and was declared as an illegal trust by an American court.

1907, director Francis Burgess led the film crew to Los Angeles to shoot The Count of Monte Cristo. They found that the beautiful natural scenery, abundant light and suitable climate here are natural places for shooting.

From 1909, Griffith, a famous producer, shot several films set in nature in Hollywood.

191110 In October, a group of film workers from New Jersey, led by local photographers, came to a small inn called Bradu, and they converted the rented inn into a film company. In this way, they founded the first film studio in Hollywood-Nestor Film Company.

Since 19 12, many film companies have settled in Hollywood. Famous film companies are: MGM (Metro? Godwin? Mayer (hereinafter referred to as MGM), Paramount, 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros., Radio? Keith. Orfin (RKO for short), Universal, United Artists and Columbia Pictures.

Today, Hollywood has an important symbolic significance in American culture. It can be said that the development history of Hollywood is the development history of American movies. The films made in Hollywood not only meet the needs of the film market in the United States of America, but also are exported to all parts of the world, which not only exports the culture of the United States of America, but also brings huge profits to Hollywood investors.