Hollywood blacklist

The Paramount decision and the Hollywood blacklist caused changes in filmmaking in America. It broke up major film studios, which caused a 20% drop in film revenue and it banned 10 influential members of the film industry from working. During the post-world war era the United States economic state was booming. American’s were working full time. They had a place to call home. Additionally most owned a television which was new technology for the time. The film industry at the time consisted of…

How did the Paramount Decision alter the direction of film making? United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc., also known as the Hollywood Antitrust Case of 1948, greatly altered the future of filmmaking in several ways. This ruling was the result of all of the major studios being sued by the United States Department of Justice in 1938 for unfair trade practices. As the result of this ruling, the major movie studios were forced to do away with block-booking of short films, reduce the…

During the Golden Era, Hollywood couldn’t make movies fast enough. Movies were in demand 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…

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 business and how it goes about relaying it’s messages. Two such examples are The United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. (1948) and The Hollywood Blacklist. In the mid nineteen forties,…

the Paramount Studios, we begin to understand the road to what some may call the “Golden Age of Hollywood.” Paramount films one of the top conglomerates in the film industry and was by far one of the most resilient studios to survive a time of great uncertainty. There were some crucial decisions that needed to be made to aid in the company’s success not just for Paramount Studio but also in Hollywood. Although filming in studios began in the 1920’, the stock market crash of 1929 was a year no…

were analyzed to determine whether they were sufficiently loyal to the government, and the House Un-American Activities Committee, as well as U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy, investigated allegations of insurgent elements in the government and the Hollywood film industry. The climate of fear and oppression caused from the Red Scare finally began to lessen by the late 1950s. Thoughts like this were not totally based on fact. The USSR had long carried out espionage activities inside…

In the early to mid-20th century, the studio system of the movie industry was a powerful and very profitable business; the vertical integrated structure had proved to be successful. The nine or ten major studios made big profits from both the production of movies and the distribution and screening of their own movies. This was possible because most of these studios owned a chain of theaters in the major cities. With the independent theater owners, they made money by a system called “block…

Fear changes people, this was eminent in the 40s/50s with the growing of totartalistic, communist state. Americans lives were dramatically changed just because of the fright of communist in ally nations. Friends targetted friends, careers were ruined, corrupt parts of the government, so many changes were made during this time, and America would forever be scarred by the anti-communist battle. In the American mind, the communist were a huge arising problem, and Truman was too soft on communism.…

It attempts to explore McCarthyism in the 1950’s, the work of The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) and the effect backlisting had on Hollywood and the entertainment business. During the ‘red scare’ when there was a fear of communism senator Joseph McCarthy produced a series of investigations in an effort to expose communism. Hollywood was subject to these investigations. If anyone is the entertainment industry was found to be so monist or have had any communistic relations or ties…

Hundreds of people falsely accused of believing in something they may not even believe in. This happened in the book The Crucible and during the Red Scare. The Crucible by Arthur Miller is an allegory for the Red Scare in the McCarthy era because they both revolve around false accusations and differing opinions or beliefs. These false accusations lead to people being wrongly questioned and left them living in fear simply due to their opinion and beliefs. In the Mccarthy era, and in the book The…