Hollywood - The Indestructible | From silent movies to Blockbusters: The history of Hollywood

Over more than a hundred years Hollywood has been the leading producer of entertainment having to reinvent itself from time to time. Just imagine the shock when the first "talkies" appeared, the advent of television, new attractions or a financial crisis. Hollywood always found an answer and even today blockbusters still beat any other form of entertainment as we are being told by Denise Mann, head of the UCLA producers programme and Dona Harris, editor in chief of Womenwire.
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Original title: Hollywood spies
Directed by Clara & Julia Kuperberg
Produced by Wichita Films
Licensed by Poorhouse International, 2014

[@michaelwest8536]

What a beautiful time. Once the studio system was done away with, it's never been the same. More movies, more stars. There will never be anything like it again.

[@GeorgeCostanzais10.]

Now all we get is models turned ‘actors’ dressed in spandex in front of a screen.

[@kayhathaway6956]

I totally agree with both comments. We’ll never see anything like the studio glamour and those timeless movies.

[@jennifer_m.8613]

Agree with everything except the studio system; the way the head honchos treated those poor kids and young adults was simply terrible! Drugs, molestations, abortions, etc

[@suksma108]

​@jennifer_m.8613 Those are the truths that are being revealed now, after decades of being hidden. Bad behavior by studio heads, to put it mildly.

[@oldmansportsog2514]

Was deplorable back them just like today

[@carolynkingsley4421]

I'm a baby boomer, born in 1946 to be exact. I remember that era well and also many of the Noir movies. Hollywood isn't the same. I seldom watch the new stuff that's coming out. I wish we could go back, but unfortunately, time moves on.

[@SaltyChips-dh3mp]

Those considered baby boomers were born between 1946 -1964, you would be Gen x.

[@EYE_GOTCHA]

You are *not* a Baby Boomer if you are in your 40’s…

[@carolynkingsley4421]

@@SaltyChips-dh3mp I stand corrected. I meant 1946. I'm now 78 years old.

[@davidmorris585]

He said 1946​@@SaltyChips-dh3mp

[@midnightreader84]

@@EYE_GOTCHA Wrong, boomers born in 1946 take their responsibilities seriously. I am a boomer.

[@GeeBoggs]

This woman is fascinating in her ability to recount Hollywood history.

[@timetravelclock2]

Clara and Julia Kuperberg are undoubtedly among the finest and most dedicated documentarians of Hollywood history. Their entire series is essential viewing for film studies scholars and passionate movie enthusiasts alike.

[@fabiengerard8142]

👌🏼 CLARA & JULIA KUPERBERG are definitely the best and most serious documentarists of the Hwood history. Their whole series is a must-see for any scholar in Film Studies as well as for all genuine movie-lovers.

[@eddieandrews3854]

The America that many of these movies portrayed is slipping away fast.

[@EYE_GOTCHA]

I think that it slipped away, long ago. 😢

[@firewilson573]

Some of it should though it was a very prejudice time for black and Asian people

[@maryminott2593]

I’ve just discovered this page. I love everything old Hollywood. Very well done and so informative. ❤

[@johnmello6837]

Wonderful documentary. Getting Professor Mann as narrator was a real coup. She is very knowledgeable.

[@chrisbrown-lx7qz]

welcome to Los Angeles,California home to the film capital of America where Hollywood movie studios located all around Los Angeles

[@paolazuffinetti]

Thanks A LOT for this wonderful video! 👏👏👏

[@JSB1882]

That was a very interesting documentary. I think the final nail in the coffin for the film industry was the COVID Scare and also the replacement of greed instead of imagination. The theatre industry doesn't have a chance anymore when everything goes directly to your personal way of screening films. I used to see 8-10 films a week before video - new films and the revival house films. That was the turning point for me once the rival houses disappeared. And now I haven't seen a theatre film in years because most of it is crap.

[@vinnym6734]

Agreed. Plus the amount of distractions now in theaters has increased so much. Bright phone screens and people talking seems constant these days….so I stopped going to the theaters for the most part. The early 2000’s were such a special routine theater outing for me. There were so many enjoyable films. I miss it.

[@topologyrob]

This is just great - I have long wondered about this era. I would love to know what the accompanying music was like

[@jcminvestments9078]

I am from Seattle first time in California and this documentary help me to find the perfect update of the films production, great and easy to follow.

[@williamoverly1617]

The studios were a mixed blessing. They controlled their actors, even after unions. However, they had great writers and understood the artistry of making picturesque films. Actors were trained, sets were constructed and directors were demanding. It was in many respects, an expensive proposition. Today sets are frequently computerized and actors superimposed on them. In many ways, it's an advancement, but the fantasies created by the studio system are greatly missed.

[@stevenmeyer4811]

Great insight in film history! Thanks for posting!

[@wocomoCULTURE]

Thanks for watching! Glad you like it!

[@arnesahlen2704]

7:55 I still have a few dishware pieces from theatre giveaways in Canada. My mother's mom made the 5 kids go to the movie with giveaways, whether or not it was their preferred film to watch!

[@DANIEL666YUSUPOV_KAZANOVA]

Great documentary thanks for posting

[@natomblin]

Excellent

[@arnepianocanada]

I have some of the dishware. My grandmother prodded her kids to same theatre no matter what the movie, just to get the dishes.

[@johnlargan6045]

This was very well done! These women present it in a very informative and interesting way. Makes me want to see more.

[@DesmoDreams]

Great presentation, really fascinating!

[@honestlyyours1069]

It was really sad to see movies shown in movie theatres decline sharply in popularity in the 1990's. Up until that time I used to really enjoy seeing the latest hit movie in the movie theatres with my friends. Its no secret that going to see movies really took a nosedive when computers took over society. Also, I found movies had too much gratitious sex and violence in them and the cost of a movie ticket, plus popcorn and a drink, was just not worth the money you spent. Also, the movies just didn't seem to appeal as much to the general public.

[@Banyo__]

Really great piece. Interesting to see the evolution. Now I'd say, just when you thought it couldn't get any harder for the movie industry, Covid hit. It was the perfect storm of stay home, stream content, and be with your family. That rounded up the last of the last holdouts who couldn't work a dvd player or figure out what streaming was, because they had no option really, but to learn and adapt. Now that Covid is fading or just here for the long haul, what actually is the appeal of going to a theater anymore? You're trying to convince people now thoroughly invested in pjs and a couch night, to spend what $40-50+ on a theater experience in a bad economy for a family of four, that they can get at home for a tenth of that. Add to that, the release to streaming dates are so small now. As a kid, it would take almost a year before a theater movie would hit VHS, and now it's something like 3 months. I think sensing this already in full motion turnabout, post writers strike, quality television programing has really taken over. You can nearly get movie style programing on tv shows and the actors themselves are realizing tv is where the legends are made now, whereas in the past, it was taboo as only washed up has-been actors used to end up falling from the grace of picture films, to doing tv.

[@reneea9119]

This video is so interesting and entertaining. I greatly enjoyed all the "behind the scenes" information the public was not privy to know. Learning about the secret dark underbelly causes a person to understand there was so much going on that may have an impact on opinions of certain old Hollywood celebrities and important industry figures.

[@steveweinstein3222]

This is an intelligent, incisive analysis underlined by the excellent film clips, but I take serious issue with three points: Post-war films like Mildred Pierce and Adam's Rib showed an ambivalence about pushing women from workers to housewives. And while The Best Years of Our Lives ended hopefully for returning G.I.'s, but literally dozens of film noirs showed men who couldn't subvert their war trauma into settling down with a 9-to-5 job and nuclear family. Finally, Kiss Me Deadly was hardly the end of noir, with films like While the City Sleeps, Crime of Passion and Touch of Evil yet to come.

[@stuartvolkow9286]

I wish I saw this before I just gave my lectur on Hollywood history! Great summary!

[@paretoeducation245]

Great move, learned a good bit. Spends most of its time on 1920's-1950's, kind of rushes through everything else. Still recommend.

[@LathropLdST]

No one cares about 'everything else'... Save the people with no taste.

[@richardbartolo2890]

When you investigate any industry the only real worth while people are those who had the insight to invent and develop the industry. Or it wouldn't even exist. All others after them mostly boosted the cheap shock value to movies, Which makes calling todays audience sophisticated a total oxymoron. The further along a product grows that the public is allowed to get involved with, Like the 4 and 5th generation film makers of todays movies, Their bullseye is aiming for the lowest common denominator. Ax murderers, Violent body counts from machine guns, exploding helicopters, sophisticated audience ? Its just an overused word that does nothing to describe todays target audience. How about oversexed bloodthirsty people.

[@williamsnyder5616]

This very good documentary was done seven years ago as I write this. Yet, I don't think the film-makers have been very good prognosticators about American moviegoers' tastes. They foresaw at the end of this piece the demise of the blockbuster in favor of more intimate films. Just the opposite has occured as we are inundated with BOOM and POW films with little reverence for the spoken word. I used to see, on the average, 50-60 films a year. Now, I'm lucky if I see two or three a year. Part of it is economics because I can afford to see movies at $15-25 a film. I just miss films like "The Philadelphia Story" where Jimmy Stewart talks of Kate Hepburn's "glow." Hooray for Hollywood? Not any more.

[@robertmartinez4174]

if Hollywood wanted to make a movie called The Jazz Singer it should have made a movie staring Louis Armstrong.

[@mal1465]

Frank Capra was my grandmother’s brother

[@richardbartolo2890]

Sad how as the decades push foreward, The bar just gets lower and lower. A population whose moral fibre finds solace in standing in line around the block to see a souless lifeform with a worm eaten face killing people in Nightmare on Elm Street. Or getting some kind of thrill from watching a disturbed mutant chainsaw killer. I used to blame the movie makers, But as it turns out they are the same as those standing in the line around the block.

[@katejones2172]

I disagree I actually Do blame the film makers as they have CREATED A Demand which wasn't needed

[@katejones2172]

Also I think it's had a detrimental affect on crime violence & other things

[@richardbartolo2890]

@@katejones2172 I am forced to agree you on both comments, Your right, Out of sight , Out of mind.

[@sandrakenney567]

What were dishwere giveways? Are they Dishes?

[@loumoon7660]

Labor laws, corruption, drugs, people don’t talk about the dark side of history and the abuse of actors and writers

[@arnepianocanada]

Research the photos please! There'a a '60 Pontiac in the '30s segment

[@arnepianocanada]

Several wrong-car scenes around that point. Apart from that, a well-presented program with certain aspects not seen in other such histories

[@patricianoga9119]

GENDERS!!!!

[@jasonrusso9808]

Randumb words

[@Bartonfink3434]

The men were soldiers and the women were Rosie the riveter and nurses and danced with the soldiers at uso functions!

[@hadassah179]

She completely left out the blacklisting drama that happened that made Spartacus possible. The minute they show the chariot race nothing else can match it.

[@blossom1643]

Nice documentary. Women were Women & Men were Men. Yes the Women stepped up in the war years & did their part. But only out of Necessity. When the Men came home, most Women went back to their true place ( in the Home). I guess we’ll never see a world like that again.😢

[@deliarodriquez7129]

To bad and sad that our actors and actresses) dont do much for our country.we need to stick together and do our part.and fight for our country.

[@LathropLdST]

Are you referring to Mexico, perhaps? I agree. It cannot be the US... I mean... 'Our country', with a name like that? 'Rodriquez' is an awfully thiiin veiled attempt at anglization...

[@mortalclown3812]

People in entertainment have no greater obligation than any other career to be public with their points of view; if anything, activism often causes division. I'm still proud that anyone in any field fights for human equality; that's a lot more important than fighting for systems.

[@thechicagobox]

We’re in what’s called “The Iron Age”. Conglomerate or Independent, either you are strong enough to succeed for the attention of the people or you’re not.

[@mjmj240]

Kirk trying to force his kiss on Jene Simmons at 34:32 quite creepy.

[@SimonChase-wx3uu]

WELCOME TO HOLLYWOOD, THE MOVIE CAPITAL OF THE WORLD

[@TylerBrown-w2f]

WELCOME TO HOLLYWOOD,CALIFORNIA THE MIVIE CAPITAL OF THE WORLD

[@jamesanonymous2343]

THE NARRATOR / HOSTESS IS A TRUE ""ZOMBIE"",,,,,,,,,HOORAY FOR MOLLY WOOD !

[@CecilliaDonald-u9f]

Gonzalez Matthew Gonzalez Carol Lopez Ruth

[@BemaCoul]

2-8:00 talking union & the government & mob

[@marcdelente2456]

La dedans ya des acteurs ou actrices dont ont ce fous.

[@sheilagrubman2285]

😊

[@deejinlondon7285]

What is this "nitch" word?

[@jasonrusso9808]

Go foogle or boogle it or whatever you people today do ....

[@firewilson573]

The studio was a bit like the slave owner according to some of the actors in that time period

[@EllanDay-hz2ib]

This lady is a great commentator and great speaking voice she makes this video very interesting good one👎👎👎

[@LathropLdST]

When I compare it to the Thames?TV documentary about Hollywood, this one is as lacking, superficial and American as can be. Huge yawn... I cannot even make it to the end.

[@jasonrusso9808]

Is it lonely up there on your pedestal?

[@torbjornkvist]

This is BS.

[@poopug]

You just skip right over the silent movies?

[@frankbruno9499]

Very interesting, as an insider and suggestion, how about one on all the technical advancements:Technicolor, Cinemascope, stereophonic sound,3D,Cinerama, pop corn to pizza for consessions?

[@jilltagmorris]

❤😊❤

[@guystudios]

Her conclusion couldn’t have been further from the truth.

[@CinemaGatesPictures]

My studio making silent films.