The History of Hollywood

The world capital of filmed entertainment Los Angeles has been a lot of things over the past 100 years. First, it was a little city with orange forest and great weather. But, one day in 1908 a group of people from Chicago came to Los Angeles to shoot (make) a film. Since that day a lot of directors, producers, actors and thousands of other workers have been coming to Los Angeles.

In 1911 the first studio appeared in Hollywood (a part of Los Angeles)

The first sound film was shot in 1929 in Hollywood

The Indian Woman’s HusbandThe Birth of the Nation

IntoleranceThe Broken Shoots

The Black PirateRebbeka from the Farm

SantibruckIn the Old California

The first colour film was made in 1939 in Hollywood

Hollywood walk of fame

There is a famous walk of fame well-known all over the world, where you can see more than 2500 five – pointed stars with the names of Hollywood film stars.

Famous Hollywood film stars

Famous Hollywood films

Universal Columbia Pictures Warner Bros

20th Century Fox MGM Paramount

Large corporationsLarge corporations

Why did Hollywood become The world capital of filmed entertainment?

IV. Practice.

1. Cinema serves as a form of entertainment, which is important to us. But is entertainment the only purpose of films?

Use the verb phrases in your answers: give much information about…;tell us about…;teach us…;make us…;influence our behavior…ets.

2. Going to the cinema is very popular in Britain. British men and women have different tastes in films.a) Look at the diagram and say what genres men and women like.

b) What genre of film do you like? Make up dialogues.

Cartoons

Documentaries

Thrillers

Horror Action

Historical

Comedy

Western

Melodrama

Genres

3. Working with the text. Read the text…

The Devil wears Prada' is a good comedy drama based on a

novel by Lauren Weisberger.

The movie is set in the busy offices of a New York Publishing

House and focuses on a college graduate who takes a job as an

assistant at a top fashion magazine. She believes it is the first

step towards becoming a serious journalist, but things don't turn

out to be quite so simple. Her new boss is ruthless, bad and

determined to make her life a living hell.

The acting in the film is nice. Anne Hathaway is convincing as

the naive young assistant, but it's Meryl Streep that steals the

show with a good performance as the bad boss. The plot can be

a little boring at times but there are plenty of laughs to make up

for that.

All in all, The Devil wears Prada is a good film and really funny.

If you only see one film this year, this should be it!

…and then choose the correct answer (A, B, C for sentences 1-5).

1. “The Devil wears Prada” is a good A) perfomanceB) megazineC) film

2. “The Devil wears Prada” is about a young girl and her boss who is …A)very kind B)very cruelC)very silly

3. The girl dreams to become a …A) college studentB) assistant at a top fashion magazineC) journalist

4. “The Devil wears Prada” has not only funny but … situations.A) frightfulB) dramaticC) unreal

5. But all in all “The Devil wears Prada ” is worth…A) seeingB) looking atC) visiting

V. The new technologies of film making industry.

The 20th century may be called the century of film making. Today cinema is very popular and available kind of art.

The development

of science and film making industry let

people watch films not only at the cinema. Watching films has become an important part

of our lives.

If you are not a cinema goer, you can stay at home and watch a film on TV or a videofilm, or DVD film. But if you are a computer fan you can watch different films on the internet.

11 British cinemas have been testing the technology that let people with defects of eyesight and hearing enjoy watching films in cinemas.

In our country “Titanik Cinema” in Ekaterinburg has been testing the new technology that let people sense themselves as if they are in the film, see volumetric picture and feel it. This technology is the third turning moment in the history of cinematography after the first sound film in 1929 and the first color film in 1939.

VI. Summing up.