Studio system

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…

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 booking”,…

During the Studio era of Hollywood, the studios had monopoly control over the entire industrial process and revenue stream of the filmmaking business. The big studios raked in nearly all the movie industry’s total gross revenues, which benefited both the corporate interests profiting form the business and the filmmakers that were under contract with the studios. The Big Eight Studios held nearly all the power in the industry and the government didn’t like that. Around the time WWII broke out,…

The pricier studios are usually found in the larger areas associated with the music industry, like New York, Los Angeles, Nashville, or Atlanta. Smaller areas, such as Montgomery, Birmingham, and Mobile tend to stay under $100 per hour, but usually cost more than $50 per hour, depending on the quality of the studio. Around Montgomery, the least expensive professional studio that advertises regularly offers digital recording services for as little as $50 per hour. The Cage will offer studio time…

itself. Indies are defined as being made outside of the studio system but the connotations of what that actually means are usually blurred. Today i will convince my audience to watch more independent films instead of commercial films. My three main points are that Indies are more personal, creative and unique. Modern day cinema is under a system where six major conglomerates are in charge of showcasing todays popular culture. Each major studio is in the movie making business with hundred…

The Girl by the Roadside is a 1917 Bluebird Photoplay crime drama presented by seasoned veterans of the film industry, including director, Theodore Marston, a former theater actor, who transitioned to film and directed several crime dramas, including 1918’s Beyond the Law, and one of Universal’s most popular actresses, Violet Mersereau, whose career spanned eighteen years from 1908-1926. The Girl by the Roadside functions as a cultural mediator, processing and addressing the complex social…

powerful and renowned Osamu Tezuka, whose TV series and manga were exported worldwide. Miyazaki had a serious case of “anxiety of influence;” because of this, it wasn’t until 1963 when he graduated and was appointed as an animator for Toei Animation Studios that Miyazaki developed his own illustration style (Cavallaro…

Synopsis Cineplex is one of Canada’s leading entertainment companies. They serve metropolitan cities and midsize markets through their nine theater brand offerings. Susan Mandryk and her team are considering two options to combat the continued reduction in theatrical release windows that Cineplex is experiencing. The first is to extend Cineplex’s core business with premium offerings. The second is to vertically integrate into the digital movie download market. Cineplex has partnered with SCENE…

caused me to leave school two weeks into fourth grade. Don’t tell my mother. We first went to Nova, a school in which I had to work at home and then come in once a week for a check-up. That didn’t work out, so for 5th grade, I joined an online learning system called K-12. It wasn’t the best and I really hated it. In 6th grade, I joined Laurel Springs Online Academy. However, for the second half of 6th grade and the first half of 7th, I joined my local middle school. I had become extremely lonely…

Whether or not you go to the movies every weekend, films are an important part of our lives in the modern world. No matter where you go you will inevitably see advertising for one movie or another, and if you do not then you will see one for a television show. In the age of the internet and social media it is truly impossible to escape movies even if you could not care less about them. I know people who have not been to a theatre in years and others, like myself, who go practically every week to…