Look at this , A Brief Introduction of Hollywood .   Hackneyed theme !   What ? How much do you know Hollywood ?   Nearly everything .   You are full of boasts . I can examine you by question and answer . What is Hollywood ? Where is it ? What is the function of it ?   Too easy questions . Listen carefully . Hollywood is the movie capital of the world.It is located in southern California . Many films have been made there , and the kinds have changed often .   Not bad . What kind of film did it produce from the ready to mid 1930 ' s   Gangster movies . Movie-goers at that time could get a look at the people involved in crime and their violent activities by watching it .   Mm . What came after that ?   After all that violence , people needed to laugh , so from the mid-to-late l940 ' s , many detective movies about policemen who solved crimes were made . Then came musicals .   Pretty good . Please continue .   Right . By the mid - 50 ' s , this light-hearted genre was competing with films about more serious subjects . There was one kind that could be found throughout all of these years , and that was the , mm , the . . .   The western films about America's cowboys , Indians and early settlers . 