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Movie Sunshine
Early filmmakers came to Hollywood for its sunny weather.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Adventure 23 · With Bella
Hollywood
Bella's Amazing Fact
Early filmmakers came to Hollywood for its sunny weather.
Can you spot…
- a camera
- a star
- a clapperboard
Look for them in the picture, then try the online activities below.
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Amazing Facts
Barn Studio
Hollywood's first full-length movie was filmed in 1914 in a horse barn. The barn is now a movie museum!
Source: The Clio: Hollywood Heritage Museum (Lasky-DeMille Barn)
Sound Machine
Theater organs for silent movies could make sound effects like horse hooves, car horns, bird calls and thunder!
Source: Smithsonian Magazine: It's a WurlitzerCoconut Horses
Movie sound makers clap coconut shells together to sound like galloping horses!
Source: PremiumBeat: The art of making sound effects
Online activities
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Color it in
To doColors
Can you spot?
To doFind each one in the picture and tick it off.
Fact match
To doWhich Amazing Fact is this?
Word puzzle
To doTap the letters in the right order. It's something you can spot in the picture!
Answers for grown-ups
- Early filmmakers came to Hollywood for its sunny weather.
- Movie Sunshine
- Hollywood's first full-length movie was filmed in 1914 in a horse barn. The barn is now a movie museum!
- Barn Studio
- The first movies had no sound. Words were shown on cards.
- Silent Stories
- Unscramble: CEAMRA
- CAMERA
This is the QR code printed on the Adventure 23 coloring page.