Hollywood (British TV series)

Hollywood
Thames Video Collection VHS 1 of 13
Genre	Documentary
Written by	Kevin Brownlow David Gill
Directed by	Kevin Brownlow David Gill
Narrated by	James Mason
Theme music composer	Carl Davis
Composer	Carl Davis
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of episodes	13
Production
Producers	Kevin Brownlow David Gill
Editors	Dan Carter Trevor Waite Oscar Webb
Running time	49-52min per episode (ex. commercials), ~11h14m in total
Production company	Thames Television
Original release
Network	ITV
Release	January 8 (1980-01-08) – April 1, 1980 (1980-04-01)
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Hollywood (also known as Hollywood: A Celebration of the American Silent Film) is a British television documentary miniseries produced by Thames Television and originally broadcast on ITV in 1980. Written and directed by film historians Kevin Brownlow and David Gill, it explored the establishment and development of the Hollywood studios^[1] and their cultural impact during the silent film era of the 1910s and 1920s.^[2] At the 1981 BAFTA TV Awards, the series won for Best Original Television Music and was nominated for Best Factual Series, Best Film Editing and Best Graphics.^[3][4][5][6]

The series has seldom been released on home video formats, apparently due to the complexity of obtaining home video rights to all of the film clips used. As of early 2024 it remains unavailable.^[7]

In 1995, Brownlow and Gill produced the followup series, Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood, which explores the rise of the silent film industry in Sweden, Germany, France and Great Britain.