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Hollywood In The Studio Era

Hollywood In The Studio Era

What is now known in film history as the studio era is the period between 1930s and 1960s where nearly all of the big blockbuster films were produced by one of the 8 major studios which dominated the industry. These studios managed to control 95% of filmmaking in this period in 2 methods:
1. By producing movies mostly on their own filmmaking lots and with their own creative teams, usually under long-term contracts.
2. By something called " vertical integration" which effectively meant that the studios owned or controlled distributors which guaranteed them higher sales.

These studios in what is also known as " The Golden Age Of Hollywood", were divided into 2 groups, the big 5 and little 3. The big 5 studios were:
•Metro- Goldwyn- Mayer which created "Gone With The Wind" and " The Wizard Of Oz"
•Paramount Pictures Corp. which created mostly comedies and light entertainment.
•Fox Film Corporation/ 20th Century Fox which then was known for musicals, westerns and crime films
•Warner Brothers which created the first sound film, " The Jazz Singer" in 1927
•RKO Radio Pictures Incorporated which was then associated with horror films and film noir.

And the little 3 studios were :
•Universal Pictures famous for making "Frankenstein" and " Dracula"
•United Artists which was produced by Charlie Chaplin
•Columbia which produced B-movies and sold them to the big 5

B-movies were low budget commercial films. In the Golden Age Of Hollywood, when one went to the cinema one viwed not only the largely publicised blockbuster but also this " bottom half" of a double feature which was a b- film.

Overall most of these studios' profits severely decreased after 1928 and the great depression but nearly none of them lost any money to it.

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