Hollywood (1980)
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Cast & Crew.
James Mason
Self - Narrator
Hal Roach
Self
Louise Brooks
Self
Allan Dwan
Self
King Vidor
Self
Jackie Coogan
Self
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Self
Henry King
Self
Leatrice Joy
Self
Karl Brown
Self
Iron Eyes Cody
Self
Harold Lloyd
Self
Bessie Love
Self
Gloria Swanson
Self
Lillian Gish
Self
Colleen Moore
Self
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Release DateJanuary 8, 1980
StatusEnded
Seasons1
Episodes13
Running Time50m
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Hollywood (also known as Hollywood: A Celebration of the American Silent Film) is a British television documentary miniseries produced by Thames Television and originally broadcast on ITV in 1980. Written and directed by film historians Kevin Brownlow and David Gill, it explored the establishment and development of the Hollywood studios and their cultural impact during the silent film era of the 1910s and 1920s. At the 1981 BAFTA TV Awards, the series won for Best Original Television Music and was nominated for Best Factual Series, Best Film Editing and Best Graphics.
The series has seldom been released on home video formats, apparently due to the complexity of obtaining home video rights to all of the film clips used. It is available on the Internet Archive.
In 1995, Brownlow and Gill produced the followup series, Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood, which explores the rise of the silent film industry in Sweden, Germany, France and Great Britain.