Hollywood Sign (2009), "Sharknado" (2013), "San Andreas" (2015), and countless other films. Other movies came up with fictional explanations for the elimination of the original LAND part of the sign. Hollywood Sign The Hollywood Sign (formerly the Hollywoodland Sign) is an American landmark and cultural icon overlooking Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. It is situated on Mount Lee, in the Hollywood Hills area of the Santa Monica Mountains. "HOLLYWOOD" is spelled out in -tall white capital letters and is 352 feet (107.3 m) long. The sign was originally created in 1923 as an advertisement for a local real estate development, but due to
Hollywood on the Tiber epics began to decline following the commercial failure of "The Fall of the Roman Empire" (1964), although films in other genres such as David Lean's "Doctor Zhivago" (1965) continued to be profitable. In 2009 a documentary film "Hollywood on the Tiber" was released. It portrays Cinecittà and the various stars who worked there between 1950 and 1970. Hollywood on the Tiber Hollywood on the Tiber is a phrase used to describe the period in the 1950s and 1960s when the Italian capital of Rome emerged as a major location for international filmmaking attracting a large number of foreign productions to