Which of these facts are true?
It was once a frontier town full of grazing cows
One of Hollywood’s famous couples owned a swimming pool that was big enough to go canoeing in
It is the film capital of the world
All of the above!
Who HQ rolls out the red carpet for Where Is Hollywood?–the film capital of the world.
Developed in the 1880s by Midwesterners looking for a sunny winter getaway, Hollywood was a small housing development outside still-small Los Angeles. But everything changed in the early 1900s when filmmakers from New York flocked to the area, where they could make movies without having to pay Thomas Edison’s patent fee. It didn’t hurt that the weather was perfect, too. Readers will take a journey from the Golden Age of Hollywood to the present-day film industry, learning all about what turned lush farmland into Tinseltown.
1880年代中西部人開發好萊塢，目的是尋找一個陽光明媚的冬季渡假場所，好萊塢當時是小型住房開發位在小小的洛杉磯郊外。但是，在1900年代初，當紐約的電影攝製者蜂擁而至時，一切都發生了變化，在那裡他們可以拍攝電影而不必支付湯姆士·愛迪生的專利費。天氣又非常完美。讀者將一覽好萊塢的黃金時代到當今的電影業，探索曾經青翠茂盛的農田變成今日的環球影城。
（文字整理/楊靜愉）