Facts about Hollywood- Number In the History (Contd.)

1. The Number of takes for one scene in the history of Hollywood is 324 for the film ‘City Lights’ in 1931. City Lights is an American romantic comedy written directed and starring Charlie Chaplin.

2. The Number of Weekends the first film (The Extra –Terrestrial: 1982) was No. 1 in the history of Hollywood was for #10 weekends. It was a Science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg.

3. The Most number of Screen Credits in the history of Hollywood is the Hollywood John Carradine who has been in over 230 movies.

 

4. A Number of films have been made on Batman From  ‘Batman No. 1’ in 1940 to ‘Batman Begins’ in 2005, but  ‘Dark Knight’ is the first batman movie not to contain the word ‘Batman’ in the title. It is a British-American superhero film and is a sequel to Batman Begins.

Facts about Earth- Only Planet in the History

1. Earth is the Only Planet in the Solar System to have water in its three states of matter: as a solid (ICE), a liquid (RAIN) and as a gas (CLOUD).

2. Earth is the Only Planet in the solar system not to be named after a mythical God.

3. Earth is the Only Planet in the solar system with despite the name ‘EARTH’ which means ‘Ground or Soil’ and most (71%) of the entire planet is covered with water.

4. Earth is a Planet in the solar system which is slowing down gradually (17 milliseconds per hundred).  Millions of year ago a day was about 20 hours long and a time would come when a day on earth would last around 27 hours long.

Facts about Hollywood- Unusual in the History

1. The Earliest existence of Hollywood was originally known as ‘Cahuenga Valley’. The name was known to the agricultural community that lived in the area around the beginning of 19^th Century.

2. Actor Charlie Sheen (Originally known as Carlos Irwin Estevez) an American actor, bought 2615 tickets to a baseball game so that he could practice catching the ball when it was hit for a home run.

3. The First Feature Film that New Line Cinema ever produced was ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’ in 1984. Wes Craven first proposed the script in 1981 but since no one was interested it floated aimlessly until New Line Cinema picked it up and it became one of the most successful horror films of all time.

4. Johnny Depp, an American actor, film producer and a musician, first Hollywood movie beak was a role in ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’ in 1984.He was casted for the role through his wife, Lori Anne Allison who was a make-up artist and a friend of Nicholas cage.

5. The film ‘Quantum of Solace’ was the twenty-second part of James Bond series released in 2008 and its title has been kicked around since 1989 when ‘Licence to Kill’ was being released, which was the sixteenth entry on the James Bond series.

Facts about Hollywood- Oscar in the History

1. The Permanent Location of Academy (Oscar) Awards was Dolby theatre (Also known as Kodak Theatre or Hollywood and Highland Centre Theatre) and it was built in November 2001 in Los Angeles, United States.

2. The First Hollywood Film to sweep all Five Major Academy Awards-Winning for Best picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director and Best Screenplay was Frank Capra’s ‘It Happened One Night’ in 1934.

3. The Shortest performance to win an Oscar for the Best supporting Actor was Anthony Quinn for his eight-minute act as Gauguin in ‘Lust for Life’ in 1956.

4. The Shortest performance to win an Oscar for the Best supporting Actress was Beatrice Straight for her five minutes and 40 seconds act in ‘Network’ in 1976.

5. The First African-American to win an Oscar was Hattie McDaniel for the Film ‘Gone with the Wind’ in 1939. She was chosen the best supporting actress for her role as Mammy.

Facts about Hollywood- Most in the History

1. The Most Expensive Hollywood Film in the history was ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: At world’s End’. It is a 2007 English fantasy adventure film and the costs involved something around $320 millions.

2. The Most Expensive Hollywood Black and White Film ever made was ‘Schindler’s List’. It was an American historical drama film directed by Steven Spielberg in 1993 and the production costs totalled around $22 million.

3. The Most Expensive Hollywood Makeup Budget For a Film was for ‘Planet of the Apes’ directed by Franklin J. Schaffner in 1968. The make-up budget was $1 million which accounted nearly 17% of the total production cost ($5.8 million).

4. The Most Frequent Portrayed Hollywood Character in horror films is the ‘Count Dracula’ was created by an Irish writer Bram Stoker in 1897.

Facts about Hollywood- Number in the History

1. The First Hollywood Film to gross into $100 Million club was ‘Jaws’ in 1975.

2. The First Hollywood Film to hit $1 Billion in the history of Hollywood was ‘Jurassic Park’. It is a 1993 American science fiction action film directed by Steven Spielberg.

3. The First Hollywood Film to hit $ 2 Billion in the history of Hollywood was ‘Titanic’. It is a 1997 American epic romantic disaster film directed and written by James Cameron.

4. The First Hollywood Film to hit $100 Million the fastest was ‘The Twilight Saga: New Moon’. It is a 2009 American romantic comedy fantasy film based on Stephenie Meyer’s novel  ‘New Moon’ and is the second film in the Twilight Saga film series.

5. The First Hollywood Star who earned a pay-check of $1 Million for a film was William holden for ‘The Bridge on the River Kwai’ in 1957.

Facts about Hollywood- Technique in the History

1. The First Hollywood Film that broke the ground and techniques like the First close-up, the Long shot, the Fade-out and other techniques was used in ‘The Birth of a Nation’ by D.W.Griffith in 1915.

2. The First Hollywood feature length Computer Animated Film was ’Toy Story’ produced by Pixar Animation Studios in 1995.

3. The First Hollywood Film to use the newly developed Three-strip Technicolor production was ‘Becky Sharp’ in 1935.

4. The First Hollywood Film to be shot and released in the Widescreen Process Cinemascope was ‘The Robe’ in 1953.

5. The First Hollywood Film created solely with Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) was ‘TOY STORY’ in 1995.

 

Facts about Hollywood- Change in the History

1. The First Hollywood Film to be released with the stipulation that no one under the age 18 would be allowed in the theatre was ‘Who’s Afraid of Virgina Woolf’ in 1966 directed by Mike Nichols.

2. The First Hollywood Motion Film to depict a non-pornographic act was ‘Extase’, a Czech romantic drama film directed by Gustav Machaty in 1933. It starred Hedwig Kiesler known later as Hedy Lamarr.

3. The First Hollywood Known American Pornographic Film was ‘A Free Ride’ in 1915. It was also named ‘A Grass Sandwich’. The information regarding the team, who made it, is still unknown but whatsoever information we have, is quite amusing. The film was directed by ‘A. Wise Guy’ and written by ‘Will She’.

4. The First Hollywood Landmark Film that signaled a shift from “Classic Hollywood “ to “New Hollywood” was ‘Bonnie & Clyde’ in 1967. It broke several social taboos and traditional filming techniques.

5. The First Hollywood Film to receive an X rating under the Motion Picture Association of America system of classification was ‘Greetings’ in 1968. It was an anti-establishment film directed by Brian De Palma.

Facts about Hollywood- First in the History

1. The First Motion (Silent) Movie in Hollywood was a 17-minute short film ‘In old California’ was directed by D.W. Griffith for the Biograph Company in 1910.

2. The First Studio was established by the Nestor Company on October 1911. It was built at the Blondeau Tavern building on the northwest corner of Sunset Boulevard and Gower Street, Los Angeles.

3. The First Hotel to be constructed in the Hollywood was ‘The Glen-Holly Hotel’ in 1895. It was built by Joakim Berg, a noted artist of the 1890’s in the region.

4. The First Nightclub of Hollywood was ‘Cafe Montmartre’ and it was opened by Adolph ‘Eddie’ in 1923 at 6763 Hollywood Boulevard.

5. The First Motion Film Studio in the world was Thomas Edison’s ‘Black Maria’ in West Orange, New Hersey built in 1893. It costs around $637 to build it.

Facts about Hollywood- Sign in the History

1. The huge ‘HOLLYWOOD’ sign was erected in 1923 and originally was spelt as ‘HOLLYWOODLAND’.

2. The letters of the word ‘HOLLYWOODLAND’ were originally 50-ft high of which four letters (‘LAND’) were removed in 1949. Now it is spelled out in 45ft-tall (14m) white capital letters and is 350 ft (110) long as ‘HOLLYWOOD’.

3. The Hollywood sign was given its landmark status by the Cultural Heritage Board in 1973. It was then declared Los Angeles Cultural-Historical Monument #111.

4. The sign Hollywood was designed by an artist Thomas Fisk Goff in the early 1920’s.

5. Broadway actress Peg Entwistle committed suicide by jumping off the letter “H” of HOLLYWOOD in September 1932 at the age of 24.

Facts about Hollywood- Initial in the History

1. Hollywood is a famous district in the central region of Los Angeles, California.

2. Hollywood was termed by a real estate developer Hobart Johnstone Whitley in 1886 while he was on his honeymoon with his wife. He is also known as ‘Father of Hollywood’.

3. Following the passage of a State law in California decriminalizing marijuana, a bunch of hippies and vandals altered the sign of ‘HOLLYWOOD’ to ‘HOLLYWEED’ in January 1976.

4. The Residents of Hollywood decided by a majority of 113 to 96 for the prohibition on the sale of Alcohol in 1904, except for medicinal purposes.

5. Hollywood is a multicultural suburb, with a population more than 200,000 people, with more than 50% of those born in a foreign country.