1.Why did film makers and producers move to Hollywood?

The mountains, plains and low land prices made Hollywood a good place to establish film studios. They moved to Hollywood for a more consistent climate for year round film shooting and to escape fees imposed by Tomas Edison

2.Name some of the big stars, directors and pictures from the Silent Era of Hollywood? (at least TWO of each)

Big stars – Greta Garbo, Charlie Chaplin

Directors- Charlie Chaplin, D.W Griffith

Picture – The birth of a Nation, The Big Parade

3.In what ways were the early Hollywood studio system like a factory or production line or even the Premier League (football)?

The Studio system operated like a factory, with stars, directors, writers and crew all working under long-term contracts. Everything is happening in one area instead of all over the place. The stars are the properties of the studios.

4.When and what was the first “talking picture”?

The Jazz Singer, which premiered on October 6, 1927

5.Why did the end of the silent era cause problems for some performers working in the film industry?

Silent actors/ actresses who were reduced to smaller character/supporting or uncredited parts following the advert of sound, or who left the industry together, due to the unsuitability of their voice and/ or acting abilities with the new medium

6.What was happening in America(and around the world) at this time?

Word war 1 started from July 28, 1914 – November 11, 1918 : meaning things get expensive and people lost there jobs – The Great Depression
The wall Street Crash (1929)

Censorship

The Hays code is a set of guidelines, self-imposed by Hollywood studios, regulating the moral content of films produced from 1934 to 1968.

The Hays code forbade the use of profanity, obscenity and racial slurs and included detailed instruction outlining how certain topics should be shown on screen, especially proscribing graphic violence, criminality, substance use, promiscuity, miscegenation, and homosexuality.