The history of film spans over 100 years， from the latter part of the 19th century to the present Motion pictures developed gradually from a carnival novelty to one of the most important tools of communication and entertainment， and mass media in the 20th century and into the 21st Most films before 1930 were Motion picture films have substantially affected the arts， technology， and The cinema was invented during the 1890s， during what is now called the industrial It was considered a cheaper， simpler way to provide entertainment to the Movies would become the most popular visual art form of the late Victorian It was simpler because of the fact that before the cinema people would have to travel long distances to see major dioramas or amusement With the advent of the cinema this During the first decade of the cinema's existence， inventors worked to improve the machines for making and showing The cinema is a complicated medium， and before it could be invented， several technological requirements had to be met
Article: History of hollywood film industryThe first movie studio in the Hollywood area， Nestor Studios， was founded in 1911 by Al Christie for David Horsley in an old building on the northwest corner of Sunset Boulevard and Gower S In the same year， another fifteen Independents settled in H Hollywood came to be so strongly associated with the film industry that the word "Hollywood" came to be used colloquially to refer to the entire In 1913， Cecil B DeMille， in association with Jesse Lasky， leased a barn with studio facilities on the southeast corner of Selma and Vine Streets from the Burns and Revier Studio and Laboratory， which had been established DeMille then began production of The Squaw Man (1914) It became known as the Lasky-DeMille Barn and is currently the location of the Hollywood Heritage MThe Charlie Chaplin Studios， on the northeast corner of La Brea and De Longpre Avenues just south of Sunset Boulevard， was built in It has had many owners after 1953， including Kling Studios， who produced the Superman TV series with George Reeves; Red Skelton， who used the sound stages for his CBS TV variety show; and CBS， who filmed the TV series Perry Mason with Raymond Burr It has also been owned by Herb Alpert's A&M Records and Tijuana Brass E It is currently The Jim Henson Company， home of the M In 1969， The Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Board named the studio a historical cultural The famous Hollywood sign originally read "H" It was erected in 1923 to advertise a new housing development in the hills above H For several years the sign was left to In 1949， the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce stepped in and offered to remove the last four letters and repair the The sign， located at the top of Mount Lee， is now a registered trademark and cannot be used without the permission of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce， which also manages the venerable Walk of FThe Hollywood Sign as it appears The first Academy Awards presentation ceremony took place on May 16， 1929 during a banquet held in the Blossom Room of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel on Hollywood B Tickets were USD $00 and there were 250 people in From about 1930， five major Hollywood movie studios from all over the Los Angeles area， Paramount， RKO， 20th Century Fox， Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Warner B， owned large， grand theaters throughout the country for the exhibition of their The period between the years 1927 (the effective end of the silent era) to 1948 is considered the age of the "Hollywood studio system"， or， in a more common term， the Golden Age of H In a landmark 1948 court decision， the Supreme Court ruled that movie studios could not own theaters and play only the movies of their studio and movie stars， thus an era of Hollywood history had unofficially By the mid-1950s， when television proved a profitable enterprise that was here to stay， movie studios started also being used for the production of programming in that medium， which is still the norm
