Titans - Rise of Hollywood (netflix)

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Titans: The Rise of Hollywood (TV Series 2022) ⭐ 7.5 | Drama

Titans: The Rise of Hollywood: With James M. Reilly, David Davino, Christina Leonardi, Grant Masters. The story of immigrants who founded first Hollywood studios.

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A great Doc series if interested in how Hollywood and movies began. From Thomas Edison and his Trust thru the rise of the Hollywood Studios - Zukor(Paramount), Lammele (Universal), Warner bros , United Artists( Pickford an Chaplin) , Fox, MGM (Mayer) , etc.. to the start of Talkies and 50s.

Crazy how none of major studios have anything to do anymore with the founders. All the stuff that got its name from William Fox lol. I think the last was Jack Warner that finally sold in the 50s. You would think 1 of them would still have OG family involved but I dont think any do.

It's a great documentary if your a film buff and /or interested in how it all began. I started watching on accident and couldn't stop.

 

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Nice. Will definitely check out. I devour anything golden age Hollywood I can find. To add to this, would recommend the Brownlow documentaries. Easily the best documentaries on cinema history. They follow a similar format to the Ken Burns documentaries and are easily digestible and packed with info. Here's a few:





There's many more that cover a wide range from Chaplin and Keaton to Universal Horror.

 

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Nice. Will definitely check out. I devour anything golden age Hollywood I can find. To add to this, would recommend the Brownlow documentaries. Easily the best documentaries on cinema history. They follow a similar format to the Ken Burns documentaries and are easily digestible and packed with info. Here's a few:





There's many more that cover a wide range from Chaplin and Keaton to Universal Horror.

Sadly of all the OGs only Mayer n Warner even made it through Great Depression. Even Warner lost control by the 50s .

 

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Thanks for the heads up on this.

 

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Sadly of all the OGs only Mayer n Warner even made it through Great Depression. Even Warner lost control by the 50s .

Yeah then you had actors coming in like Burt Lancaster producing films and the whole system changed. I'm no expert on the history of studios but find it interesting how great films were because you had all those studios competing and it was just constant quality and innovation. Even super low budget stuff like a lot of the RKO and Val Lewton productions were all so creative and took risks. It was the height of cinema imo.

 

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Yeah then you had actors coming in like Burt Lancaster producing films and the whole system changed. I'm no expert on the history of studios but find it interesting how great films were because you had all those studios competing and it was just constant quality and innovation. Even super low budget stuff like a lot of the RKO and Val Lewton productions were all so creative and took risks. It was the height of cinema imo.

Great depression hit right after studios spent a ton upgrading to sound - it sank most of the heads as they lost all their money - except Mayer (MGM) who didn't really own anything at the time so it wasn't on him an the Warners got lucky with the timing .