101 Facts About Hollywood

greetings from the factors my name is Sam and today I'm gonna be talking day Oh oh come on Steve that take was perfect I can't work like this I'll be in my trailer Philistines anyway hello my name is gregory happenstance and i'm the actor who's played sam for all these years today i'm going to talk to you all about hollywood the glitz the glamour the crass commercialism and disgusting abundance of tourists hollywood has it all baby it's mostly about bollywood central role in the US film industry because apparently the only other interesting back bar honey would involve narcotics and feral chickens so we're going to take the easy route but what is the highest grossing hollywood film of all time what did the hollywood sign used to say and where in the name of all the previous happenstance men before me is my organic guava juice i'm going to kill my PA to answer three those questions are going to be answered so turn on the lights fire up the camera and get ready for some furious faction as we count through 101 facts about hollywood number one hollywood first and foremost is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles California notable as the center of the American film industry as a result the word Hollywood has become shorthand for the industry in general kind of like Hoover except with more naughty things surrounding it number two Hollywood is also known by several different nicknames such as Tinseltown and The Dream Factory which reflect the bright glittering and perhaps even unreal image of the movie industry know right Hollywood superficial perish the thought number three aside from these several groups of Native Americans who lived in the area before they were displaced by you guessed it European colonialism the history of Hollywood as a permanent habited place goes all the way back to the Year 1853 when the number of buildings located there stood at exactly one Adobe Hut by 1870 however an agricultural community had flourished and Hollywood was well on its way to becoming the haven of iniquity and sin it is today except it started with root veg number four apparently the word Hollywood was coined by a real estate developer named HG Whitley who visited the area while on his honeymoon with his wife while standing on a hill Whitney encountered a Chinese man who was carrying wood in a wagon and upon asking him what he was doing the man of her responded I'm hauling would get it cuz it it pounding sound by Hollywood yeah with me let the sound of Hollywood as the name for the region claiming that Hollywood represent England and would would represent his Scottish heritage okay sure that story Sanford Jets number five however this origin story seems to be contradicted by a competing theory no way really which holds that Dana Wilcox wife of a developer named Harvey Henderson Wilcox heard the name from a woman she met on a train journey who had just used the word Hollywood for her country home in Ohio after a Dutch settlement of the same name another version of the story says that David Wilcox heard the name from her neighbor either weed a prominent investor and friend of the aforementioned HJ whitley number six regardless of how she heard it Wilcox like the names so much that she later dubbed her ranch Hollywood and when her husband bought 120 acres of land in the area he used the name when he submitted a map of his property to the Los Angeles recorders office on the 1st of February 1887 number seven by this time the invention of films was already underway as the work of several people eventually converge into something resembling modern filmmaking in the late 18-hundreds Eadweard Muybridge created a famous moving image of a galloping horse in 1872 Thomas a Edison and William Dixon invented the Kinetoscope in 1891 and in late 1895 brother's Augustine and Louie Lumiere held their first public demonstration of the cinematograph a three and one device that could record to develop and project motion pictures widely considered the first film camera in history number eight within months the cinematograph as being shown throughout Europe and North America and around 1905 $0.05 movie theaters charmingly known as Nickelodeon's began to pop up these Nickelodeon's offered people an easy and inexpensive way to watch films which in turn encouraged public appeal of this new technology and generated more money for filmmakers they also served as a useful method for exhibiting news in propaganda during the First World War number nine in 1909 the central film company a production company based in New Jersey created a West Coast production units called the Nestor film company which in October of nineteen eleven established the first pone at film studio in Hollywood California Hollywood was officially up and running baby you're welcome Chris Pratt number 10 the very first feature film made in Hollywood was Cecil B DeMille 1914 silent western the Squaw Man the 74 minute long film was originally going to be filmed in Flagstaff Arizona but upon arrival DeMille felt the surrounding scenery wasn't appropriate for his vision of the film so made a last-minute decision to shoot in Los Angeles instead number 11 the very first film of any length made in Hollywood was a 17 minute silent film called in old California made by American writer director and producer DW Griffith all the way back in 1910 Griffith is better known for making the 1915 silent drama film The Birth of a Nation a three-hour long epic set during the Civil War and the subsequent reconstruction error which is acclaimed for its radical cinematic triumph and condemned for its clearly racist ideological starts which includes the glorification of the Ku Klux Klan yeah those guys what a dick number 12 there were many reasons why Hollywood was an obvious choice as a location for the US film industry southern california experiences great weather for most of the year it's also home to a diverse array of scenery in the form of deserts forests mountains and beaches and land was shifted by at the time and local labor was plentiful however there was also one huge reason why many filmmakers wanted to head west number 13 Thomas Anderson's motion picture patents company was founded in 1909 and was based in New York in other cities on the east coast of America while the MPP C did many positive things with the burgeoning u.s. film industry like reducing the dominance of foreign films and standardizing various areas of filmmaking Edison and his buddies in the organization also held most motion picture pictures at the time and regularly sued people for the unauthorized use of anything from cameras to projectors number fourteen the MP PC used its elevated position to bully and terrorize uncooperative and independent filmmakers producers and theater owners and was apparently even known to hire mafia affiliated thanks to violently intimidate people my god Addison leave it out as a result filmmakers began moving out west to Los Angeles where it was harder for the MP PC to enforce their patents sneaky number 15 eventually the film industry in California developed beyond the MPP seize control while many of the patents upheld had been found in the mid 1890s began to expire leading to the precipitous decline of Edison's litigious consortium sorry not sorry number 16 by 1912 well several major motion picture companies had set up production in or around Los Angeles and after the end of World War numero-uno the United States experienced an economic and cultural boom as the relatively new film industry continued to flourish Hollywood had become the home of American cinema bringing in all the glitz and glamour of the entertainment industry with it number 17 as such the 1920s represented the beginning of the u.s. film industry's cultural ascendance hundreds of movies were being made every year leading to the birth of the movie star and directed with characteristic talents and styles eventually Hollywood began to cultivate its status as an oasis of leisure and luxury and it's this period which is today identified as the beginning of the Golden Age of Hollywood cinemas which would last for several decades everything sounds like it's going well so far right number eighteen it's in this optimistic spirit that in 1923 the iconic Hollywood sign was constructed on the southern slope of Mountain Lee in the Santa Monica Mountains the sign originally read Hollywood land and was built to advertise an upscale housing development snazzy number 19 what is often less reported about that sign is that the upscale housing development in question was a segregated white-only housing development not so snazzy in fairness virtually all of Los Angeles was segregated in the 1920s because back then racism was even more popular than it is now hard to believe I know number 20 the formerly racist sign costs $21,000 to construct which in today's money is equivalent to roughly three hundred and ten thousand dollars that's certainly enough to purchase large quantities of nuggets the Poulet number 21 in addition the Hollywoodland sign was originally illuminated by roughly four thousand light bulbs which as you can imagine a burnt-out and very often indeed as a result the sign required a caretaker in the form of Albert Cota who changed the light bulbs on the sign every single day number 22 Oh coach it was so dedicated to his job he even lived in a little cabin near the Hollywood sign is something an incorrect person would say this popularly stated myth about the history of the sign is so pervasive that it's even been printed in academic books on the subject it is however total firm plan while there was a cabin near the sign it was only used for storage by his own admission Cota lived at the north end of North Beach would drive he was a science caretaker so don't believe everything that you read okay number 23 around this time several film companies had been established and eventually a small group of huge studios emerged as the leaders in the Hollywood film industry collectively known as the big five because they were big and there were five of them yeah these large film companies were Warner Brothers RKO Fox MGM and paramount have all owned their own film production sets and Studios number 24 meanwhile a number of smaller studios such as Columbia and Universal were also active at the time and were distinguished by the fact that they didn't own their own theaters other studios were smaller still and included tiny little insignificant companies like dice me Disney never heard of it number 25 during the 1920s the Hollywood film industry was the fifth largest industry in the entirety of the United States since then Hollywood has been overtaken by considerably less sexy industries like Finance and non durable manufacturing give it up the non-durable manufacturing everybody whoa number 26 legendary Hollywood producer Hal Roach famous for producing comedies in the 1920s and 30s would often employ someone called a wild E to sit in this writers room the selected person was either insane or drunk whose sole purpose it was two spouts crazy ideas whenever they had a writer's block which the professional writers in the room then had to entertain seriously but now I'm in the wrong job number 27 in the mid 20s execs had a recently formed and financially struggling studio known as Warner Brothers decided to take a risk on this unusual first-time film which was ultimately released in 1927 under the title the jazz singer this film constituted the very first feature-length talkie well kind of it was the very first feature film to include audible synchronized singing in speech but it's only for certain sections and not the whole thing sadly the film was also remembered for its extensive use of blackface which is oh dear number 28 in 1929 the very first annual Academy Awards which if for some reason you don't know about is a prestigious award ceremony given drawn artistic and technical achievements in 1929 the very first annual Academy Awards which if for some bizarre reason you don't know what they are they were procedures walt ceremony honored when I leave very first annual Emmy Award which of some bizarre reason we don't know I was finished award ceremony given officing I'm technical development within the film industry were held at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel now commonly known as the Oscars this event was considerably smaller than its Gauguin Xuan modern descendant featuring the presentation of only 15 awards with less than 300 people in the audience number 29 Hollywood's golden age continued into the 1930s with gusto as a new era film industry began with introduction of sound into film and further forays into genres like action comedies westerns musicals documentaries even horror it was in this decade that silent film began to die off and sadly many silent movie stars did not make the transition to sound number 30 the early 30s brought with them further innovation which can be seen with the 1931 adventure film the Viking financed by Paramount Pictures on the condition that the production you - crew from Hollywood originally titled white thunder the film tells the story of a bitter rivalry between two men who set out on an Arctic seeding expedition aboard a ship called the fine King it's notable as being the first film to record sound and dialogue on location which was done so in Newfoundland Canada number 31 sadly the Viking is also remembered as one of the most disastrous movie productions in cinema history I mean it was the first one outside of studios I wasn't gonna go well was it while attempting to use explosives to break up some of the sea ice around the Viking a crew member accidentally ignited 25 crates full of dynamite aboard the vessel causing a gargantuan explosion which killed 29 people including the film's director producer Varrick for sell to this day that remains the largest number of fatalities to ever occur during the production of a Hollywood film number 32 however it was in the 30s that the film industry's prudish critics finally caught up with them and it suited the motion picture production code more commonly known as the Hays Code after will hate Hays who is the president of the motion picture producers and distributors of America later known as the Motion Picture Association of America between 1922 to 1945 first published in 1930 but only properly enforced in 1934 the Hays Code was essentially a long list of things that filmmakers were banned from including in their films now this range from the normal stuff like sex and drugs all the way to miss Sega nation and ridicule at the kalarjian buzz number 30 stray though filmmakers had experimented with use of coloring films it's the early 1900s it wasn't video until the mid 1930s that technology really allowed color cinema to the first feature film to be shot entirely using Technicolor's innovative three-strip process was the 1934 historical drama Becky sharp and soon after Technicolor became the established favorite of all the major studios number 34 in 1932 the Hollywood sign early history took a tragic turn when the British actress peg Entwistle committed suicide by jumping off the letter H she was found by a hiker who after finding a woman's shoe jacket and purse that contained a note looked down to see the actresses body lying at the bottom of a ravine and whistled was most well known for her Broadway performances and appeared in only one Hollywood film thirteen women which was released two days before she was found number 35 in 1934 Frank Capra's it happened one night starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert became the first film to sweep all five major Academy Awards winning for Best Picture Best Actor Best Actress Best Director and Best Screenplay adaptation this feat was not achieved again until - formance 1975 film adaptation of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest which did the same thing at the 48th Academy Awards in 1976 number 36 the first african-american Oscar winner was Hattie McDaniel who won Best Supporting Actress in 1939 for her role as mammy in Gone with the Wind a frankly shameful 24 years would pass before another african-american would be awarded an Oscar in the form of mr. Sidney Poitier my favorite actor who won Best Actor for lilies of the field at the 36th Academy Awards in 1963 number 37 as the u.s. struggled with the Great Depression Hollywood attempted to raise profits by presenting double bills and selling cheaper tickets while filmmakers responded to the troubled times with escapism and social criticism when President Franklin D Roosevelt enacted his New Deal reforms through 1933 1936 the film industry became polarized politically as producers and executives beard rightward while actors writers and directors moved to the left number 38 the decade baked in 1939 with the release of films like mr. Smith goes to Washington stagecoach and MGM's Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz both of which are still considered by many to be - the greatest films ever made number 39 throughout the 1930s studio bosses allow the German government to send or even sometimes canceled Hollywood films that were unflattering towards Germany or their new fascist regime in order to reign active in Europe number 40 not only that but Jewish staff often had their credits removed from films or work replaced one particularly evil MGM exec named Fritz string Holt the head of the company's German office divorced his Jewish wife at the request of the propaganda ministry she ended up in a concentration camp number 41 okay that was heavy but luckily not everyone was as willing to let fascist boss them around the Year 1939 also saw the release of the film at confessions of a Nazi Spyder first plate in the anti-nazi Hollywood film as a result history's biggest douchebag Hitler Peart studio had Jack Warner on its extinction list to be carried out in the event that Germany won the Second World War but plot twist they didn't so gutted the meaning of life in addition when Charlie Chaplin made the Great Dictator 1940 he had to pay for it with his own money because much of Hollywood was afraid of losing money when they took a stand an opening mocked Hitler studio bosses putting money for ethics for what number 43 the early 1940s were hard for the American film industry especially following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor it wasn't all doom and gloom though further technological advances such as high quality in sound recording better special effects and the continued rise of color film all made the movies at that time appealing to the average cinema goer number 44 naturally the Second World War effected Hollywood in a variety of ways many actors directors and technicians join the Armed Forces and those that didn't salt war bonds and appeared in propaganda to raise money and awareness for the war effort you know like Captain America did number 45 meanwhile two new genres emerge the patriotic war movie which demonizing stereotypes of Germans and Japanese and films that would later become known as film war which was heavily influenced by German Expressionism as a result of the many refugee filmmakers who fled to the United States to escape Germany number 46 in the early 1940s the aforementioned caretaker of Hollywood sign Albert Cota was driving drunk atop Mount Lee and lost control of his vehicle and went 20 did the exact opposite of a stated job description by crashing into the letter H though Cota wasn't harmed his car was destroyed and the H was completely knocked over is another thing an incorrect person would say yes get another Albert Cota myth in reality the son is brought down via windstorm a fact that's corroborated by articles that appeared in the Los Angeles evening Herald and Los Angeles Times newspapers that's some good police work their gang number 47 in 1946 the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People or the NAACP called for a boycott of Disney's animated musical films song of the south an adaptation of the Uncle Remus stories that feature stereotypical depictions of recently released black slaves on a plantation though the film has never been released in its entirety on home video in the United States because of this it did inspire the crate in the popular Disneyland ride Splash Mountain yikes number 48 later on in the 40s the film industry came under attack from an internal foe in the form of anti-communist witch hunts in 1947 the house on American Activities Committee held nine days of hearings into alleged communist propaganda and influence in the Hollywood film industry which was met with Craven submission from the studio's Craven I say none lordy neither during this time actor and eventual President Ronald Reagan acted as informant for the FBI reporting on other actors in Hollywood who he suspected of subversive activities sounds like Ronald Reagan number 50 a total of 79 individuals to subpoenaed for the HUAC on suspicion of including communist propaganda in their work but for various reasons only 10 men appeared to testify before Congress later known as the Hollywood tear despite the fact that the HEA sees accusations were unsubstantiated and the membership in the Communist Party was not actually illegal the Hollywood turn were convicted in contempt of Congress and given short jail sentences after refusing to reveal their political affiliations number 51 over the next few years more than 300 people including directors actors and particularly screenwriters were blacklisted by the studio bosses in Hollywood many of these people were forced to move elsewhere or even sell their scripts cheap me for other people to take the credit all the girls America was scared of a little redistribution of wealth I wonder what Bernie would have to say about that number 52 in 1949 in the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce under the contract for the city of Los Angeles to repair and rebuild the Hollywoodland sign which was only meant to be up for 18 months the agreement stipulated that the word land to be removed to spell Hollywood so then the sign would refer to the whole area rather than just an extremely racist housing development scoop number 53 in the 1950s television content it's meteoric ascent forcing the Hollywood film industry to adapt instead of continuing to produce films featuring idealized portrayals of youths filmmakers embrace the spirit of rock'n'roll and rebellion films of this era began to contain darker narratives and edgier characters played by the likes of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe why am i speaking like this number fifty-four technological advances of the era included bigger screens in the form of cinema scope this division and Cinerama the latter of which utilized three separate projectors to create a widescreen image the mid-fifties also saw the mainstream introduction of 3d film yes the 50s it did happen before have't our 3d film became popular in a golden era lasting only two years between 1952 and 1954 thinking with Alfred Hitchcock style and the murder number 55 one of the most famous films of 1950s the 1955 classic revel will of course be just three main characters played by James Dean Natalie Wood and Sal Mineo eerily all three of these performers met untimely deaths Dean died in the car crash Natalie Wood drowned and Sal Mineo was stabbed to death number 56 in 1953 somebody had the smart idea to litter the street of Hollywood with numerous stars bearing the name of prominent stars I guess of the entertainment industry a sort of Walk of Fame if you will that somebody was a m.stuart the volunteer president of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce Stuart proposed the Walk of Fame as a means to maintain the glory of a community whose name means glamour and excitement in the four corners of the world sure why not number 57 a total of 1500 58 honorees were selected to be included in the initial installation of the Hollywood Walk of Fame representing the four major branches of the entertainment industry films television music and radio completed in 1961 the art deco tourist attraction continues to attract tourists Mike assured to this very day number 58 the 1960s as we covered in our very own video on the subject where time of great social change in the form of new fashions and trends changes and cultural values and the rise of counterculture and the civil rights movement significantly the decade opened with director Otto Preminger giving writer Dalton Trumbo a prominent member of the Hollywood 10 his first screenwriting credit since the 1940s for the 1960 film Exodus soon after actor Kirk Douglas who's still alive for the Wow listen life is Kirk Douglas still alive Kirk Douglas was born the 9th of December 1916 and is 102 years old what he'll declare that Trumbo had written the screenplay for Stanley Kubrick's epic historical drama Spartacus and in doing so he'll tweak in the blacklist against the Hollywood ten ever working again number 16 the year 1963 constituted the slowest here in Hollywood film production for decade with only only 120 movies released which was the lowest since the 20s this decline in production was prompted by lower profits due to the rise of television a response the film companies diversify by creating made-for-tv movies television programs Reuven by branching out into the music business to boost their profits number 61 not only that in the 1960s Hollywood saw significant competition from innovative in less prudish foreign made films in the year 1964 Hollywood released 141 films in comparison to 361 foreign releases in the United States number 62 in the heady taboos smashing days of the swinging sixties censorship was also becoming less and less popular and after a difficult battle with censors the 1966 classic Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf became the first movie release for the stipulation that no one under the age of 18 would be allowed in the theater unless accompanied by a parent Congrats kids in the 60s number 63 eventually the ailing Hays Code was finally replaced in 1968 with the more relaxed system of self regulation in the form of the MPAA film rating system which is totally cool and has never been abused or mishandled Nintendo 64 the 1960s saw a slump in Hollywood film industry as the average film ticket price was lowered in an attempt to attract moviegoers eventually numerous studios were acquired by unrelated business conglomerates signaling the sad death of the Golden Age of Hollywood which was pushed out into the Pacific on a burning lock boatload of the highly flammable celluloid gone but not forgotten baby number 65 however these changes allowed authority over filmmaking to shift from the studio's to the director this transitionary period was marked by the release of important movies such as Bonnie and Clyde the graduate and Easy Rider which became emblematic of the beginning of the new Hollywood era number 66 as a result of the breakdown of the established from production conventions demise of the restrictive Hays Code and an increase in appetite for change an innovation the general population the 1970s were met with an explosion of creativity in Hollywood sex and violence became more acceptable darker stronger thematic content flourished and new and exciting special effects technology dazzled audiences signaling an artistic high point for Hollywood number 61 in turn this renewed energy in Hollywood allowed for the surprise success of films like George George what like doing which in 1955 became the first movie to gross over 100 million dollars becoming the highest-grossing film in history at the time this record though was swiftly overtaken in 1977 by the near-legendary space opera Star Wars number 68 these films were created as a result of the ascendance of the movie brats not a movie about the dolls brats but a small group of young often bearded filmmakers who burst onto the movie scene and produce some of the biggest titles in cinematic history this gang of movie nerds included iconic names like Steven Spielberg George Lucas Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola who generated a steady output of huge blockbusters which delighted and enthralled audiences all around the world so leaves me one question this who is your favorite movie brat director let us know in our snazzy YouTube in addition this era also saw the advent of revolutionary technologies like the VHS video and laserdisc players which quite an increased profits for Hollywood studios although this was at the cost of a significant decrease in theater attendance in the following years it's like spinning plates number 70 the shortest performance to win an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress was verges straight performance in the 1976 film Network which only lasted 5 minutes and 40 seconds the last time I gave a performance starting only 5 minutes 40 seconds was you know achieved that private let's move on number 71 in the late 70s Hugh Hefner the founder of the popular at optic magazine Playboy I mean I read of the articles of it erotic leather campaign to have the Hollywood sign restored following decades of neglect which left the sign in a shoddy and frankly depressing state that year the old sign was replaced with an identical version made with very structural improvements such as steel footings rather than telephone poles number 72 where are they in 1978 in honor of his 50th anniversary Mickey Mouse became the first animated character to be honored with a star on the old Walk of Fame since then many other cartoony boys have become star recipients including Bugs Bunny Donald Duck Tinkerbell Winnie the Pooh and The Simpsons number 73 the relative boom of the late 70s came to an abrupt and costly end with a rapid succession of expensive failures such as Scorsese's musical drama new york new york spielberg spirit comedy 1941 am idle jimmy knows utterly disastrous epic western Heaven's Gate which made only 3.5 million dollars on a production budget of 44 million dollars singularly bringing United Artists to the brink of collapse number 74 as a result the film bosses and eggs act stepped back in ending Hollywood's brief fling with the right to driven film is in favor of much tighter studio control which in turn led to the cavalcade of soulless pop buses which littered the following decade number 75 indeed it's been stated by many film experts at the 80s constituted a lull in quality for Hollywood films producing numerous generic movies for leaders who sought simple entertainment well screw them I like the simple entertainment anyway Studios began exploiting advances in special-effects technology instead of taking risks with more cerebral content that being said the decade did have a lot of gems including the likes of terminator top gun George Luke - star wars' equals which if you don't remember are called the Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi number 76 in 1985 the Hollywood Boulevard commercial and entertainment district was listed in the National Register of Historic Places making Hollywood's contribution to American culture official he only took eight decades number 77 predictably the economic decline of the early 90s prompted a significant decrease in box-office revenue they fought tunes had returned by 1993 and continued to increase overall theater attendance was up due to the production of new multi-screen cinema complexes as high budget blockbusters enticed punters with improved special-effects running car chases epic gunfights and all manner of violence baby good signs number 78 the 1990s also saw a major comeback for animated films which was capitalized upon by the likes of Disney and a plucky new company called Pixar you may not have heard of it number 79 the year 1990 was also a great year for Hollywood as it was the first year in which the world was changed forever by the birth of the best person currently in existence Jennifer Schrader Lawrence and as luck would have it she also grew up to be a Hollywood film star Apple convenient number 80 in 1995 Pixar release Toy Story their very first feature film which has since become a 100% legit ironclad 90s classic Toy Story was also the very first entirely computer animated film so yeah it was kind of a big deal number 81 meanwhile behind the scenes of the whole of Hollywood however the pressure was intense the cost of Hollywood movies was becoming exorbitant expensive due to the higher prices for movie stars rising production costs slick advertising campaigns and threats of strike some crew members bad times number 82 also in the early to mid 90s the Hollywood sign trust was set up to look after the legendary landmark which requires frequent renovations and upkeep since its restoration in the late 70s the sign has been repainted every few years to keep it looking shipshape and tip-top number 83 DVDs first hit stores in 1997 and allowed for much better image quality as well as the capacity for interactive and behind-the-scenes content videotapes became obsolete almost immediately as the digital revolution took hold in Hollywood and around the world more films contained digital imagery all being projected digitally and Digimon became a thing so yeah everything was digital for a while delays really accepted him on that's kind of died isn't it number 84 one filmmaker and Explorer James Cameron salt Hollywood funding for the 1997 classic tragic romance film Abbott oh sorry no I mean Titanic he did so because he wanted to dive to the shipwreck he has stated explicitly that making the film which was four years the highest-grossing film of all time was mostly secondary all like number 85 with the turn of the millennium came a new age in film history this period was marked by further technological innovations such as the introduction of the blu-ray disc and digital video recorders like TiVo and sky plus the continued rise of this little thing called the intern named neat I don't know also made video streaming more accessible to number 86 throughout the latter half of the 2000s James Cameron worked on the science fiction epic epic avatar which was ultimately released in 2009 avatar break the world record for the highest grossing film ever only 41 days after its release and then went on to become the first film's grossed more than 2 billion dollars which is lucky really because it costs two hundred and thirty seven million dollars to make number 87 however it should be noted that avatars record as the highest grossing film ever is based on its nominal earnings basically it didn't adjust to inflation but if we do do that a different ranking emerges the 1939 American epic historical romance film Gone with the Wind and three hundred ninety three point four million dollars at the box office a figure that is today equivalent to roughly three point four four billion dollars making at the highest grossing movie of all time number eighty-eight today there are a small number of major film studios clone collectively as the big six because they are big and there are six of them nothing to do with baymax I'm afraid all of these two euros Paramount Pictures Warner Brothers pictures 20th Century Fox Universal Pictures Columbia Pictures and Walt Disney Pictures were active during the Golden Age of Hollywood number 89 however only three of them Paramount Pictures Warner Brothers pictures and 20th Century Fox were part of the fabled big five of the Golden Age as mentioned earlier Universal Pictures and Columbia Pictures were part of the second tier of studios and Disney was smaller still the two remaining of the big five studios MGM and RKO do still exist but on a much smaller scale number nine 80 today the Academy Awards are held in late February or early March of each year honoring the previous year in film the awards are commonly held at the dole at Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue which is in Hollywood hence its inclusion in the list thank you and good night number 91 today roughly three-quarters of lead roles in Hollywood go to men well isn't that a depressingly sexist statistic but what can i holler straight white male do to help number 94 to number 92 though it's often thought of his English actor Sean Bean who is mostly widely known for his numerous cinematic deaths it's actually fellow Englishman John Hurt who's been snuffed out the most on film number three however when averaging out cinematic deaths by member film credits beam apparently retains his most death crowned with 0.32 deaths per film a statistic he shares with Hungarian American actor Bela Lugosi famous for his titular performance in the 1931 classic Dracula number 94 not only is getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame extremely difficult it's also very expensive someone has to pay to keep the Walker family from spick-and-span so the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce currently charges those who nominate someone for a star the princely sum of $40,000 so y'all's gonna get one but some worth it now is it and that's the only reason why I won't have one number 95 crooning legend Frank Sinatra old blue eyes Antony has three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame one for film one for music and one for television some people are just greedy or just extremely talented across multiple areas of the entertainment industry one of the to number 96 the blinking light atop the iconic Capitol Records Tower spells out the word Hollywood in Morse code the night has done so since the building was first opened all the way back in 1956 when it was turned on by Layla Morse the granddaughter of the coach crater Samuel Morse no relation Bingham what will it be my first name number 97 as already mentioned the stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame are a very popular destination for tourists the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce estimates it as many as 10 million people visit the Stars every year number 98 in total the Walk of Fame company consists of more than 2600 stars celebrating celebrated celebrities number 99 in 2002 Muhammad Ali was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame interestingly our least stars the only one that is not embedded into the payments but on a wall of the Dolby theatre alley didn't want his name walked over by people who didn't respect him a decision that was also motivated by the fact he shares the name of the Prophet Muhammad number two Hulbert Dona Ana the Apollo 11 crew consisting of Neil Armstrong Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins also have stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame which are also somewhat different to the others in place of regular stars the Apollo 11 lads have moons instead get it because they went on the moon well at least of what the government wants you to think that was when to be Robin from what some conspiracy did I made it I nailed it number 101 a diner in assigned til he's called the Equality cafe appeared as a location in so many Hollywood films then in 2006 it was shut down solely to be used as a movie set waste of a good diner if you ask me so that was 101 fact about Hollywood baby have you ever been to Hollywood have we missed any facts let us know in the comments down below also give this video a like because it really does help us out and subscribe top 101 fact if you have not done so already because well I mean look at all these cool customs they're doing it over 400,000 of them now well what I know crazy anyway look at these two little stars in their own right one of them is gonna really make your day and so's the other so watch them both but I'll let you choose which one you go for first tonight for now I'll be in my trailer

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