TV series

Hollywood

1980 · 1 season

A warm, scholarly tour through silent-era Hollywood, rich with restored clips and firsthand memories, inviting you to marvel at a lost world.

Created by: David Gill, Kevin Brownlow
Genres: Documentary
Starring: James Mason, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Jackie Coogan

Overview: A 1980 documentary series exploring the establishment and development of the Hollywood studios and its impact on 1920s culture.

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Created by: David Gill, Kevin Brownlow
Genres: Documentary
Starring: James Mason, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Jackie Coogan

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Tone: warmstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: art
media
celebrity
memory
ambition
Places: big city
workplace
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: documentary
true story
serialised
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence mild
Sex none

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Action	1
Horror	0
Humour	3
Realism	10
Romance	2
Tension	1
Darkness	2
Complexity	6
Emotional weight	5

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Genres: documentary
Created by: David Gill, Kevin Brownlow
Written by: David Gill, Kevin Brownlow
Starring: James Mason, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Jackie Coogan, Hal Roach, King Vidor, Byron Haskin, George Cukor, Gaylord Carter
Length: 1 seasons, 13 episodes, 50 min each
Network: ITV1
Country: United Kingdom
Languages: English

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