Mount Lee the adjacent Griffith Park. The large tower atop Mount Lee today is owned and operated by the City of Los Angeles. It is a newer structure which replaced the original W6XAO tower some years ago. Smaller tenants on the site have included some federal government and amateur radio users. Mount Lee can be hiked; however, the immediate area where the Hollywood Sign is located is closed to the public since the area is home to the main communication tower for the City of Los Angeles. Trails leading to the Hollywood Sign can be accessed from several official Griffith Park entrances.
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