Alongside that, cinemas were also used to distribute information on the war through news sources such as ‘Pathe News’ as TV’s wouldn’t be generally used until 1948
This led to a massive decline in the amount of cinema tickets being sold which made it difficult for some of the cinemas to stay open due to their lack of income
However, in 1948 the paramount decision was made where the government forced the studios to sell their theatres as it violated an anti-trust law in the US, the law stating that companies can’t prohibit/control what people buy and therefore watch, stopping the studios from block booking.
Due to the studios losing their theatres, it was no longer guaranteed that their films would be successful which caused them to lose a lot of money and gain a lot of competition as smaller studios now had the chance to play their films in theatres too. This led to the end of the golden age of cinema and started a massive decline in the film industry as studios now had to hire directors, screenwriters etc to create good and successful films instead of just mass-producing films, especially as TV was becoming more and more popular.