Film Historian Answers Old Hollywood Questions | Tech Support | WIRED

Film historian Tony Maietta joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about the old days of Hollywood and the U.S. film industry. When did the "golden age" of Hollywood begin and end? Why is the US film industry based mostly in Los Angeles? When were the first Oscars? Why was Marilyn Monroe such a transcendent star? What impact did Charlie Chaplin have on the art of film? Did silent film stars bother to learn their lines? Answers to these questions and plenty more await on Old Hollywood Support.

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0:00 Old Hollywood
0:13 I’m ready for my close up…
0:58 Why Los Angeles?
2:31 Let the golden age begin
4:23 “Owning” actors
5:09 The Mid-Atlantic Accent
6:09 What is so legendary about Marilyn Monroe?
7:43 Elizabeth Taylor
8:53 Decline of the Hollywood musical
10:02 Gone With The Wind
10:47 We’re here for that salacious gossip
12:24 Academy Awards: Origins
13:22 Natalie Wood
14:34 Gay and Bi stars in the 50's and 60's
15:41 Singin’ In The Rain was about this wasn’t it
17:07 Teenage Judy Garland’s Smoking
18:04 Shirley Temple
18:38 When did the old Hollywood system go away?
19:57 A black and white film hot take
20:44 The first films in their genre
22:14 Charlie Chaplin: Giant
23:26 Did silent film stars bother to learn their lines?
24:08 Citizen Kane

Director: Jackie Phillips
Director of Photography: Grant Bell
Editor: Alex Mechanik
Expert: Tony Maietta
Line Producer: Joseph Buscemi
Associate Producer: Brandon White
Production Manager: Peter Brunette
Production Coordinator: Rhyan Lark
Casting Producer: Nick Sawyer
Camera Operator: Shay Eberle-Gunst
Sound Mixer: Paul Cornett
Production Assistant: Abigayle Devine
Post Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin
Supervising Editor: Erica DeLeo
Additional Editor: Jason Malizia; Samantha DiVito
Assistant Editor: Billy Ward

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