America in Color - Season 2 - Eps 6: Hollywood's Golden Age
The movie industry was born in West Orange, NJ in 1893 by Thomas Edison. Within thirty years, Hollywood grew into America's fourth largest, and by far most glamorous, industry. Revisit the Golden Age of Hollywood, when actors became global celebrities, moguls became millionaires, and the entire nation became movie crazy. Using digitally remastered news footage, rare studio archives, and home movie footage, look back on the dawn and meteoric rise of Tinseltown in color.
About America in Color
Title: America in Color
First Air Date: 2017-07-02
Last Air Date: 2019-12-15
Status: Returning Series
Rating: 7.1/10 (from 7 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 3
Total Episodes: 17
Network: Smithsonian Channel
Genres: Documentary
Production Companies: Unknown
Synopsis
From the 1920s through the 1960s, America transformed from a young country on the rise into a global superpower. Using digital colorization technology, we present these formative decades as few have seen them, revisiting 50 vibrant years of good times and great despair, technological triumphs and natural disasters, and global villains and national heroes.
Cast
Liev Schreiber
Self - Narrator (voice)
