Lasted from 1920-1950
Known as the golden age of Hollywood
Some of the greatest films were made at this period
How did the studio system work?
Each studio made their own film
Actors and filmmakers were under a contract to a certain system
8 studios operating
Five big studios
Created, produced, distributed and showed movies
They owned all the movie making process and had their own theatres
Made a lot of money
- Fox film corporation (20 century fox)
- Metro Goldwyn Meyer
- RKO Radio Pictures
- Warner Brothers
Little three
Limited number of movie theatres
Produced many movies but couldn’t show so many movies
- Universal Pictures
- United artists
Why did the studio system end?
US federal laws changed
Studios were did not have control to show their theatres
Independent film makers could begin to compete
Warner Brother’s Studio
- When and whom was the studio set up
Warner Brothers Studio was set up in 1923 by for brothers, Jack, Sam, Harry and Albert Warner
- What were some of the best films by the studio
The Jazz Singer (1927) with Al Jolson, first movie to used Vitaphone sound system
Yankee Doodle Dandy, Musical form 1942 with James Cagney
- Who were major stars and film-makers on the studio
Humphrey Borgart (Maltese Facon 1942)
Bette Davis (Dark Victory 1939)
James Cagney (The public enemy 1921)
Edward G, Robinson (Little Caesar 1930)
Olivia de Haviland (Gone with the wind 1939)
Michael Curtis
- Was there a particular genre and type of films the studio did
Film noire, dramas, gangster films, some musicals though cynical and black and white
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