Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood

Season 1 Episode 2: The Birth of Hollywood (1907-1920)

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).

Genre:

Documentary

Seasons:

1

Episodes:

7

Cast:

Christopher Plummer, Paul Israel, Terry Borton

Quality:

HD

Duration:

60 min

First Air:

2010

Rating:

5.4