- better filming locations and year round good weather meaning they could film at any time and as a diverse area to film in and provided some good locations
- some famous stars from the silent era were greta garbo, charlie chaplin, and freddie rowland.
- the studios would own everything, and force hard labour
- october 6th 1927
- many actors voices didn’t fit their onscreen character, or were heavily accented
- the great depression
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Warner Bros, Paramount, Fox, RKO
- the business arrangement in which a company controls different stages along the supply chain
- 1960s, because of
- ww2
invisible storytelling is editing to transmit the plot without focusing on it
combining related shots to make a seamless consistent narrative