Paramount: Highest Peak During The Golden Age Of Hollywood

How did Paramount get to where it is today? There may be some things that you may not even have known about this company and what it was doing. At one point Paramount was part of the “Big Five” studios. The “Big five studious were at its highest peak during the Golden Age of Hollywood. They were profiting on film making like there was no competition. This was possible due to block booking. They were selling a really good film that had an assortment to the bundle some of them being good and some that were mediocre. So for a long time they had the theaters and the public that liked movies wrapped around their finger. They were making it so that little companies weren’t able to compete against these five large companies. They were soon even buying theaters so that they wouldn’t have to even sell to theaters. …show more content…
It was held at the Supreme Court level and it was The United States v. Paramount Pictures. Paramount had lost the battle here and they were unable to black book anymore as part of the settlement. Another thing they lost was the ability to own theaters and they were forced to sell their theaters. This was a big hit in general since they were making a monopoly out of it. Another hit was The Hays Code, they were limited to what they could produce and show to the public. This limited on things that included religion and Communist propaganda. The communist propaganda would even black list people that were justified to be contributing in this idea. The final straw that really had Paramount going under was the control of their stars that were in the films. When they couldn’t get any lower television appears and this was just the icing on the