- The five big studios
Paramount was famous for “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” (1931) and “Shanghai Express” (1932), and were able to showcase the ability to adapt and innovate.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was famous for inventing the Hollywood stable-of-stars system.
Twentieth Century Fox is famous for producing mainly westerns, musicals, screen biographies, and religious epics.
Warner Bros Throughout the 1920s was known for its musicals and colour films.
RKO was famous for movie classics such as King Kong (1933), The Informer (1935), and Citizen Kane (1941), as well as a series of stylish musicals.
2) Vertical integration is when one company owns and has control over each step of a process in media: the production, exhibition, distribution and circulation.
Block booking was a system of selling multiple films to a theatre as a unit. Block booking was the prevailing practice in the Hollywood studio system from the turn of the 1930s.
3) The studio system collapsed as the supreme court ruled over the case in 1948. This was because the studios had a near monopoly and violated anti-trust laws, affecting 5 big studios and 3 smaller ones.
4) post world war 2 there was fear against communism which affected many actors such as Charley Chaplin