Author Kenneth Anger uses the early days of Hollywood as a backdrop to explore the emergence of Hollywood, its quasi-hypnotic powers and its evolution into the colossal money-making machine it is today. Interest in the movies saw no bounds - all despite thorny revelations that everything from drug use to murder plagued the industry, and US government calls for greater censorship. This intriguing book by Kenneth Anger, former child star and later in life adept of Alesteir Crowley, offers the reader a sensational, but oddly reverent. In 1916, nothing it seemed could rival the megalomania of Hollywood’s burgeoning movie industry. For Griffith’s depiction of the fall of Babylon, no scenery was too extravagant and no vision too grandiose. One obvious reference point for the film is Hollywood Babylon, the notorious 1959 book by filmmaker Kenneth Anger about the supposed scandals of early Hollywood whose purple prose about. Look no further than the Balthazar’s Feast part of Intolerance, the production of which included a two kilometer-wide set and a cast of several thousand. Griffith’s infamous movie, Intolerance, Hollywood Babylon takes as its starting point, the Griffith movie which has been widely recognized as the most lavish and oversized production in movie-making history. Referring to the legendary Babylon as depicted in David W.
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