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The Hollywood studio system

The Hollywood studio system. Golden Age 1930/1948 Production Line Model Critics argued that the films produced lacked imagination and were created to a formula. . Vertical integration : ownership of Production, Distribution and Exhibition Big Five : Paramount, MGM, Fox, Warner Bros, RKO

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The Hollywood studio system

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  1. The Hollywood studio system • Golden Age 1930/1948 • Production Line Model • Critics argued that the films produced lacked imagination and were created to a formula.

  2. Vertical integration: ownership of Production, Distribution and Exhibition • Big Five: Paramount, MGM, Fox, Warner Bros, RKO • Three small: Columbia, Universal and United Artists – didn’t own exhibition

  3. 1948: The Paramount Decree. A Supreme Court ruling that forced the five major companies that made up the big five sell their cinemas, was passed and they lost their monopoly. Who didn’t survive the Paramount Decree?

  4. Hollywood today • No longer vertical integration • Studios do not work on a production line model and do not control the means of production, distribution and exhibition • Film studios might bring the finance and studio facilities to a deal, but films are not exclusively generated ‘in-house’

  5. Changing shape of Hollywood means that the decline of vertical integration sees the rise in the star vehicles in which stars are no longer attached to any one studio. RESEARCH TASK: • To understand the change in the Hollywood star system you will complete a research task into the Golden Era of stars. Humphery Bogart, Rita Heyworth, Shirley Temple, Orson Welles, Jane Mansfield, Cary Grant, Bette Davis

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