RTF 306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Harlem Renaissance, Roscoe Arbuckle, Roaring Twenties
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Moved to la from east coast city. After wwi: produced 98% of worldwide film. Demand for new film increases need to make films year-round. Shooting films occurred outside and la had sunshine year round. Climate in the northeast was not suitable during the winter. Topography in la was super varied (ocean, mountains, desert, etc. ) which gave them many settings for filming. Low taxes, cheap labor, affordable land in comparison to ny. Railroad + oil money had cultivated and subsidized a small but thriving theatrical community in the la area. Factors that contribute to the creation of hollywood . Early 1910s: cinema was growing from risky start-ups to a viable industry. So leaders of hollywood had succeeded in their attempts to: Lengthen films in terms of their own and importing longer films from europe. By 1925, hollywood had more press representatives than any other location in the us important bc shows the important of.
