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The Rise and Fall of the Hollywood Studio System
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The Rise and Fall of the hollywood studio system 1950's and 1960's
By. Yasmani Cuesta Rodriguez
The Golden Age of Hollywood could not last forever. A number of outside forces were conspiring to make it impossible for the studio system to continue for more than a few decades in the post-war era. This is the Fall Of The Studio System, a period of time stretching from roughly the late 1940s to the late 1960s
Golden Era of Hollywood
5 Major studios
The
Major
Five
Systems
Studio
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Paramount
RKO Radio Pictures
Warner Bros
Fox Film Corporation
3 Minor Studios
The
Minor
Three
Systems
Studio
Columbia Pictures
United Artists
Universal
How the Cookie Crumbled
- The moment that is often considered to be the beginning of the end for the studio system, and the end of Hollywood's Golden Age, is the 1948 landmark Supreme Court decision United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc.
- Block Booking: is a system of selling multiple films to a theater as a unit.
- The Hays Code: was the informal name for The Motion Picture Production Code
Miracle Decision: after the name of the film
- National Legion of Decency
- No film ratings system, films would be billed as "Recommended for Adults Only," and more and more theater chains were willing to show them. The tide in Hollywood was turning against censorship
Red Scare: The communist menace
More Cookie Crumbs
The Propaganda Machine a.k.a. The Ministry of Truth delivers The Truth from The Government to the people.
- The Hollywood Blacklist
- AWARE
- Red Channels
was one of the first to directly target anti-Communist hysteria, and in 1957
• radio host John Henry Faulk sued AWARE for ruining his career (winning his case in 1962).
The new medium of television was also placing growing pressure on the industry. The days of film serials and newsreels that ran before and between movies quickly came to an end as short subjects, news programs, and cartoons migrated to TV
Keep falling
Prospects
- Late-night television became popular for reruns of old movies, which helped revive interest in The Silent Age of Hollywood but did nothing to pull audiences into movie theaters.
- The studios reacted to this competition by filming a greater share of their movies in color and introduced numerous innovations (including widescreen projection and stereo sound) and gimmicks
- 3-D movies
- Roadshows
Epic Movies
TV
Star system crumbled during this period
Established stars like Jane Greer, Bette Davis and Marilyn Monroe were battling studio heads at every turn, often refusing certain parts that they didn't want and even suing to get out of their contracts.note The publicity this generated meant that new arrivals in Hollywood knew about the restrictions that they would face by signing contracts with the studios.
The Actors
Fun Fact
The Golden Age of Porn, or porno chic, refers to a 15-year period (around 1969–1984)
Fun Fact
QUESTIONS
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QUESTIONS
References
After the Rise and Fall of Hollywood
- https://the-artifice.com/after-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-studio-system-could-we-use-it-today/
Fall of the studio system
- http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/FallOfTheStudioSystem
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Age_of_Porn