Hollywood & Studios

The industry the city is known for. The studio lots and backlots, the sound stages, the premieres and the Walk of Fame, the sign on the hill, and the business of making pictures.

Part of Los Angeles

62 moments in this segment.

1. 1880 - Clocktower (Temple) Courthouse, Market and Theater 4. Los Angeles, 1880. From the Wikimedia Commons historical-photo collections.
2. 1885 - Grand Opera House Los Angeles c.1884-1893. Los Angeles, 1885. From the Wikimedia Commons historical-photo collections.
3. 1895 - Hollywood looking north-northeast from Olive Hill (Barnsdall Park), Hollywood, 1895. Los Angeles, 1895. From the Wikimedia Commons historical-photo collections.
4. 1898 - Orpheum Theatre when located at the former Grand Opera House, 110 S. Main, Los Angeles, …. Los Angeles, 1898. From the Wikimedia Commons historical-photo collections.
5. 1906 - Exterior view of the Hollywood Branch of the Los Angeles Public Library (the Norman F. M…. Los Angeles, 1906. From the Wikimedia Commons historical-photo collections.
6. 1906 - Chutes, a color postcard. Los Angeles, 1906. From the Wikimedia Commons historical-photo collections.
7. 1907 - A Happy Family at the California Alligator Farm, Los Angeles, Cal (clloy 042). Los Angeles, 1907. From the Wikimedia Commons historical-photo collections.
8. 1910 - Ramona (1910) - D.W. Griffith silent short. An early film shot in the LA area.
9. 1914 - Bernheimer Bros.' Japanese bungalow, Hollywood. Los Angeles, 1914. From the Wikimedia Commons historical-photo collections.
10. 1914 - lasky02. Los Angeles, 1914. From the Wikimedia Commons historical-photo collections.
11. 1915 - Early days in Hollywood, 1910s (archive). Silent-era footage of the new film colony.
12. 1916 - MGM Studios. Los Angeles, 1916. From the Wikimedia Commons historical-photo collections.
13. 1917 - Jan 5 display ad for Los Angeles premiere of The Play of Everyman by George Sterling. Los Angeles, 1917. From the Wikimedia Commons historical-photo collections.
14. 1917 - Camouflage - Wooden Guns - Movie men, camoufleurs. Dummy gun, camouflaged by movie men, …. Los Angeles, 1917. From the Wikimedia Commons historical-photo collections.
15. 1918 - Chaplin meets Harry Lauder - rare archival footage. Behind-the-scenes film of the silent-era star.
16. 1919 - North Hollywood Pacific Electric Car Station, 1919 (LAVC15). Los Angeles, 1919. From the Wikimedia Commons historical-photo collections.
17. 1919 - Charlie Chaplin - "A Day’s Pleasure" (1919). A Chaplin short from the silent era.
18. 1919 - Chaplin & Maxine Elliott - rare archival footage. Rare film of Chaplin in his Hollywood prime.
19. 1921 - California Theatre, 810 S. Main St., Los Angeles, c.1921. Los Angeles, 1921. From the Wikimedia Commons historical-photo collections.
20. 1922 - Excavation along Sunset Boulevard at Edgemont Street intersection showing very decided b…. Los Angeles, 1922. From the Wikimedia Commons historical-photo collections.
21. 1922 - Cahuenga Pass Hollywood. Los Angeles, 1922. From the Wikimedia Commons historical-photo collections.
22. 1922 - Cross excavation on Sunset Boulevard near Harvard Street showing high fill over cross tr…. Los Angeles, 1922. From the Wikimedia Commons historical-photo collections.
23. 1925 - Hollywood & Cahuenga (1920s). The young film capital in the Roaring Twenties.
24. 1930 - Albert Kothe and his Ford Model A at Hollywoodland Sign. Los Angeles, 1930. From the Wikimedia Commons historical-photo collections.
25. 1930 - Columbia Broadcasting System at night, Radio City, Hollywood, Calif. Los Angeles, 1930. From the Wikimedia Commons historical-photo collections.
26. 1932 - "Real Hustling" - Los Angeles (British Pathé, 1932). A 1932 British Pathé newsreel of the city.
27. 1935 - 1930s California home movies (silent). A road trip across 1930s California on film.
28. 1935 - Publicity at Hollywood dog training school, Southern California, 1935. Los Angeles, 1935. From the Wikimedia Commons historical-photo collections.
29. 1936 - 1930s Los Angeles at night - neon & movie theatres (home movie). A 1930s home movie of downtown neon, from the PeriscopeFilm archive.
30. 1936 - Woodystrode collage. Los Angeles, 1936. From the Wikimedia Commons historical-photo collections.
31. 1937 - 1930s Binney family home movies, Los Angeles. Everyday LA life on home-movie film, 1930s.
32. 1940 - Los Feliz Brown Derby postcard. Los Angeles, 1940. From the Wikimedia Commons historical-photo collections.
33. 1945-06-15 - The Central Avenue jazz district. Los Angeles, 1945.
34. 1947 - California (1947, travelfilmarchive). A 1947 travelogue across Southern California.
35. 1948 - Los Angeles, late 1940s (Huntley Film Archives). Genuine late-1940s street film of the city.
36. 1950 - Sunset Boulevard (1950). Billy Wilder’s noir about Hollywood itself.
37. 1952 - Brown Derby on Wilshire 1952. Los Angeles, 1952. From the Wikimedia Commons historical-photo collections.
38. 1952 - Cliffie stone circa 1952. Los Angeles, 1952. From the Wikimedia Commons historical-photo collections.
39. 1956 - Broadway theatre district at night (1950s). The neon marquees of downtown’s movie palaces.
40. 1960 - Hollywood Plaza Hotel pool. Los Angeles, 1960. From the Wikimedia Commons historical-photo collections.
41. 1963 - Hollywood Plaza Hotel coffee shop. Los Angeles, 1963. From the Wikimedia Commons historical-photo collections.
42. 1965 - Hollywood in 1965 (British Pathé). British Pathé colour film of Hollywood, 1965.
43. 1965 - The Hollywood dream, 1965 (vintage LA). Vintage 1965 footage curated by Alison Martino.
44. 1965 - KFAC Gas Company Evening Concert 25th Birthday advert. Los Angeles, 1965. From the Wikimedia Commons historical-photo collections.
45. 1966 - The Sunset Strip in the 1960s (vintage footage). The Strip at the height of its rock-and-roll era.
46. 1966 - Buffalo Springfield - "For What It’s Worth". The 1966 Sunset Strip riots anthem.
47. 1967 - Sunset Boulevard, 1967. Archive footage of the boulevard.
48. 1967 - The Brown Derby (Kodachrome, c.1950). The hat-shaped restaurant where Hollywood ate. This photograph dates from 1967.
49. 1970 - CSNY - "Our House". Provided to YouTube by Rhino Atlantic Our House · Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
50. 1972 - HOLLYWOOD FREEWAY - NARA - 542684. Los Angeles, 1972. From the Wikimedia Commons historical-photo collections.
51. 1974 - Jack Albertson on the set of "Chico and the Man". Los Angeles, 1974. From the Wikimedia Commons historical-photo collections.
52. 1979 - Groundlings1979. Los Angeles, 1979. From the Wikimedia Commons historical-photo collections.
53. 1983 - Hollywood Sign. Los Angeles, 1983. From the Wikimedia Commons historical-photo collections.
54. 1988 - N.W.A - the Compton sound (1988). The year 2008 marks the 20th anniversary of N.W.A's landmark album STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON, one of the two most important gangsta rap albums ever (the other being N.W.A. founding member Dr. Dre's THE CHRONIC). The album sounds as ferocious and frightening as ever, as it continues to voice the "power of street knowledge" to the masses. Like the similarly themed 10th Anniversary edition, this version of S.O.C. contains a handful of reworked versions of songs by some of the biggest names in post-N.W.A. rap,…
55. 1988 - N.W.A - Straight Outta Compton (1988). Los Angeles, 1988.
56. 1996 - Tupac at Death Row Records (rare footage). Los Angeles, 1996.
57. 1996 - Tupac, the last interview (1996). Los Angeles, 1996.
58. 2008-06-15 - Griffith Observatory & the Hollywood Sign. Los Angeles, 2008.
59. 2011 - Hollywood Hills view from Jefferson Park. Los Angeles, 2011. From the Wikimedia Commons historical-photo collections.
60. 2011 - Mutual of Omaha building and Hollywood sign. Los Angeles, 2011. From the Wikimedia Commons historical-photo collections.
61. 2013 - Early-2010s Los Angeles aesthetic. Los Angeles, 2013.
62. 2026-06-19 - Chaplin filmed in an LA park, 100+ years ago. Original footage of Chaplin shooting in Los Angeles.