Florida is known for many things like its fresh oranges, its sunshine and warm climate, its beautiful beaches, its Everglades National Park, cigar factories and many more interesting things. There is also one more thing that adds on to Florida’s popularity and it is its film industry. The film industry in Florida is one of the largest in the United States. In 2006, Florida was ranked third in the U.S. for film production, after California and New York, based on revenue generated.
Who knew Florida would also be famous for its film industry. I will be talking about Florida’s interesting facts and history about the film/movie industry and how it all started in Florida.
In the early 20th century it was a period of rapid growth for the American motion picture industry. During that time, New York City was the main headquarters for this industry. New York was eventually hit with a cold, harsh winter weather, and Hollywood was not in the picture yet, the New York City film industry needed a winter filming location. In search for a winter location they found Jacksonville, Florida the gateway to the sunshine state. Besides Jacksonville being a warm climate with exotic locations Jacksonville also provided a great rail system which gave easy access and transportation of equipment to the city. With all of these services that Jacksonville provided to the film maker’s, Jacksonville quickly became known as The Winter Film Capital of the World.
In 1908, Jacksonville became the new home of Kalem Studios, the very first film studio in the state of Florida, which pushed the city to fame as the Winter Film Capital of the World. Cold weather sent New York film producers south in search of sunnier locations for filming during the winter. ...
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... World. The Festival includes narrative and documentary features and shorts, animation, midnight movies, and a full array of educational forums, attractive parties, and other special events.
The Florida Film festival is known as the "Big 15" in the United States, for Academy Award consideration. The citywide festivities serve two purpouses, remembering Florida's amazing movie making past and attracting the entertainment industry and being a spark for new talent. For more than a hundred years, Jacksonville has played an important role in America's film history. In the beginning of the first decade of the 20th century, Jacksonville's people, its buildings and its remarkable landscape have been seen on screens both large and small across the country. With all of the achievements the Florida has made it deserves the title of The Winter Film Capital of The World.
Hollywood is not simply a point on a map; it is a representation of the human experience. As with any other location, though, Hollywood’s history can be traced and analyzed up to present day. In 1887, Harvey Henderson Wilcox established a 120-acre ranch in an area northwest of Los Angeles, naming it “Hollywood” (Basinger 15). From then on, Hollywood grew from one man’s family to over 5,000 people in 1910. By then, residents around the ranch incorporated it as a municipality, using the name Hollywood for their village. While they voted to become part of the Los Angeles district, their village was also attracting motion-picture companies drawn in by the diverse geography of the mountains and oceanside (15). The Los Angeles area continues to flourish, now containing over nine million people, an overwhelming statistic compared to Wilcox’s original, family unit (U.S. Census Bureau 1). However, these facts only s...
Lewis, J. (2008). American Film: A History. New York, NY. W.W. Norton and Co. Inc. (p. 405,406,502).
The idea of Hollywood, before it was Hollywood as we know it seems foreign. However, it did exist and was known as "Pre-code." Pre-code Hollywood refers to the era in the American film industry between the introduction of sound in the late 1920's and the enforcement of the Hays Code censorship guidelines, which went into effect on June 13, 1934 (Association of Motion Picture Producers 1934). Durin...
During the 1920s, when people craved entertainment, Jack Warner, one of the Warner brothers, faced many hardships throughout his life. He still excelled to make an impact on the film industry and build a successful filming empire.
The roaring twenties would be nothing without the roar of the MGM Lion. “If Hollywood had no other studio than Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the town still would have been the movie capital of the world” (Fricke para 1). MGM enchanted audiences with its high-budgeted films and glamorous list of stars (Hanson para 1). Three failing movie companies came together in 1924 in hopes to make it big in the motion picture industry, and it did (Fricke para 3). Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer created spectacles of movies after its merging which made MGM one of the most prosperous motion picture companies in the 1920’s (Hanson para 2).
Classic film noir originated after World War II. This is the time where post World War II pessimism, anxiety, and suspicion was taking the world by storm. Many films that were released in the U.S. Between 1939s and 1940s were considered propaganda films that were designed for entertainment during the Depression and World War II. During the 1930s many German and Europeans immigrated to the U.S. and helped the American film industry with powerf...
The American film industry’s early attempts at the narrative Western were limited and in the early years were produced mainly in the east. During this early time in the film industry the...
The British were extremely successful in populating Florida in the late eighteenth century. Florida’s exoticism was instrumental in recruiting British settlement in Florida. “Most publications describing the Florida’s during the colonial era originated in England.” At that time, Florida was depicted in oral and written accounts as an exotic region whose natural setting would undoubtedly benefit the British Empire. Such depictions were used as a type of propaganda. The publications of William Bartram (1739-1823) provide one example.
Thompson, K 2003, ‘The struggle for the expanding american film industry’, in Film history : an introduction, 2nd ed, McGraw-Hill, Boston, pp. 37-54
As proven in the moon Port film space exploration didn’t just satisfy human curiosity as many skeptics believe but had a multitude of other benefits. The film also provided us insight on how life was in Florida at the time of the mercury launch and anyway that aerospace industry might’ve impacted impacted Florida.
Since the last century, the City of New York has been epicenter of the entertainment industry. Its neighborhoods and the many emblematic places such as The Empire State building or the Statute of Liberty have been part of the most ambitious films. Accordingly, New York City is one of the famous metropolises around the world. Besides the attractions and places that belong to this urban jungle, its undeniable fame is due to its appearance as an arena in production films. One of my favorites movies filmed in New York City is “Carlito’s Way”.
In this essay the following will be discussed; the change from the age of classical Hollywood film making to the new Hollywood era, the influence of European film making in American films from Martin Scorsese and how the film Taxi Driver shows the innovative and fresh techniques of this ‘New Hollywood Cinema’.
Film, as a traditional and beloved media, has been influential on people's life. We spend time in the cinema to be entertained, touched, scared and experience romantic love story and exotic places. As one of the most famous film industry base in the world, Hollywood, produces and sell their movie products all over the world.
Florida has had quite an eventful history. It’s first human inhabitants are believed to be several Native American tribes, including The Panzacola, Chatot, Apalachicola, Apalachee, Timucua, Calusa, and the Matecumbe. These tribes occupied land all over Florida.
Nowadays film festivals have become common in our culture; from the Sundance Film Festival in the middle of January to the Rome Film Festival at the end of October, there is barely a day in the calendar where some Film Festival is not being celebrated in some part of the world.