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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…

The Orbis Pictus Award is the most prestigious award given to authors that successfully create a nonfiction book for children. The authors are celebrated with this award if their work meets a certain set of criterion – accuracy (of the person/event they focus on), style (interesting and stimulating writing), organization, design (attractive details), and usefulness in the classroom – and only one author is honored with the award each year. The book must be written with the purpose of sharing…

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Exam- Question 1 During the mid to late 1950s, television networks and major film studios were not willing to work one another. There were a number of reasons why these corporations. One early problem for the motion pictures studios attempt to sell films to television was their issue with exhibitioners. Exhibitioners threatened they would boycott studios who sold features to television or studios who moved to telefilm. They were forced to take the threats seriously because the exhibitioner’s…

Third grade was probably one of my toughest years as a child learning in school. I always felt like I was behind and not as great as the other kids, because I was very slow when it came to obtaining certain skills. One of the skills that I struggled with the most was reading. Now first off I could read, I could sound out the words with usually not that much trouble. Although when it came to question time, I was doomed. I just couldn’t put the words together and figure out what they meant, what…

A movie entitled The Godfather is chosen as object in this analysis. Don Corleone as one of main character chosen as source data. Regarding utterance from Don Corleone this movie presents a numbered of presupposition in various context. Then relation between presupposition and context obtains a certain meaning of an utterance. As considering, statement from Stalnaker who said that context influences content, while content can creates a context because sometimes word that say has a function not…

(Poverty Row), and most significant Independent Producers. The Major Studio at that time consisted of five studios and these studios were large corporations and were viewed as “A” pictures. They were the movies that were the main feature in the theater. The Minor Studios which were three studios (Universal Studios, Columbia Pictures and United Artist) though two had their own production companies they did not have their own theaters. United Artist was considered a studio though it mainly focused…

It is no secret that climbing the ladder to success in any industry can be challenging. As we look at 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…

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…

The most prominent of these studios, known as “The Big Five,” consisted of Paramount Pictures, RKO, Warner Brothers, Fox, and Loew’s Incorporated. Again, during that time, they controlled the development, production, and distribution of films which lead to the studio system. The Paramount decision, stemming from the United States Supreme Court Hollywood Antitrust Case of 1948 (United States vs. Paramount Pictures), defined how studios could no longer hold financial interests or own theaters.…