Film producer

The film industry had many changes take place in Hollywood during the 30’s such as the transitions to sound, color, and a new code of conduct emerged. The Hollywood Production Code is also known as Hays Code. It is a series of guidelines created by motion pictures in order to restrict explicitly in filmmaking. Producers believed they were responsible for spirality and morality of people all over the world when they made films. When the industry transitioned from silent films to talking pictures…

The Film Industry history is very interesting because it 's great how it has evolved into what we know it is as of today. For example, the early development of cinema played a significant role in the United States since the US is “the birth of cinema”. American…

benefit society and some of the laws passed can have a very profound effect on society as a whole or just certain individuals within society. The decisions made by our federal government have had and currently have an impact on Hollywood as well. The film industry is in the business of entertainment and education and has the ability to convey messages to people on a different level. With that being said, the government has had a hand in controlling how the industry goes about conducting it’s…

Since the mid-1980s, Spielberg has increased his role as a film producer. He headed up the production team for several cartoons, including the Warner Bros. hits Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, Toonsylvania, and Freakazoid!, for which he collaborated with Jean MacCurdy and Tom Ruegger. Due to his work on these series, in the official titles, most of them say, "Steven Spielberg presents" as well as making numerous cameos on the shows. Spielberg also produced the Don Bluth…

Leading up until the 1940’s during the Golden Age of Hollywood, the studio system ruled the film industry. The big studios such as Paramount, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Warner Bros., 20th Century Fox, and RKO Radio Pictures owned their own theaters and controlled what was played at them. However due to many reasons, both the Golden Age of Hollywood and the studio system would come to an end. In 1948, the US Supreme Court issued a decision in the U.S. vs. Paramount Pictures antitrust lawsuit.…

In the 1990s, there was an increase in females who worked in the film industry. The entry of women into more significant roles such as producers and directors led to a change in direction of women films and the development of contemporary “chick flicks” (Hollinger, 2012). The popularity of the genre can be observed through its economic success. In her article “From Chick Flicks to Millennial Blockbuster: Spinning Female-Driven Narratives into Franchises”, York (2010) describes the progress and…

In the 1990’s where the film industry came to dominance, actors were cast to portray roles of racial minority characters conspicuously and blatantly. The concept of white washing, orientalism or cultural appropriation were not prompted into the minds of directors, actors, movie-goers or virtually anyone of the time yet. With this, there was barely or if any characters of colour being casted for roles that they were the basis of. This notion has since continued onto contemporary society today,…

Thomas Edison and his assistant, William K.L. Dickson, created a device called kinetoscope. It was small box that that had film roll and a peephole. People would look in the peephole can see 90-second black-and-white films. The last gentlemen to change the technology of moviemaking was Auguste and Louis Lumière. These two brothers developed a new device that could show film on a large screen. Thomas Edison created the first movie premiere in America with the new Thomas Armat’s Vitascope.…

and the Big Five were making money hand-over-fist. They controlled everything that had anything to do with movies from production to exhibition. In 1946 the studios had made an astonishing $121,000,000 in profits. The years after World War II, the film industry changed radically and Hollywood began a period of decline. In 1950, the studios’ soaring profits dropped to $31,000,000 (Lewis, 2008). This paper will take a look at two of the major factors that contributed to the decline of the…

of countries were making independent local films, but only Mexico and other Latin America countries were making international films. Mexican films were socially engaging, most of the time challenging a government rule. All these films, no matter the theme of it, had a quality which became known trait of the entire movement. The movies had the ability to speak on two topics at the same time, like speaking on religion and politics, By the 1940s, Mexican films were being shown all through Latin…