Season
Season 1 Episode
- Season 1 Pioneers
- Season 1 In the Beginning
- Season 1 Single Beds and Double Standards
- Season 1 Hollywood Goes to War
- Season 1 Hazard of the Game
- Season 1 Swanson and Valentino
- Season 1 The Autocrats
- Season 1 Comedy: A Serious Business
- Season 1 Out West
- Season 1 The Man with the Megaphone
- Season 1 Trick of the Light
- Season 1 Star Treatment
- Season 1 End of an Era
Hollywood - Season 1 Episode 13 End of an Era
8.30 50 minutes Silent films had universal appeal, simply by replacing intertitles and dialogue cards for the foreign markets. Sound film was experimented with in many forms since the 1890s, but did not become commercially successful until The Jazz Singer in 1927. Hollywood movie making was transformed and ultimately shattered, taking the careers of many silent film stars, directors and producers with it, victims of the emerging technology.
