The Studio
System – its decline and the institutes today
Silent Era – No studios or institutes, just directors and
filmmakers. When they realised the amount of money that can be made, they
bought directors, sets and stars. Studios even owned their own cinemas and wouldn’t
show films made by rival firms. Actors could only appear in films distributed
by the studio who owned them.
Golden Age – Big 5: MGM, Paramount, Fox, RKO, Warner Bros.
Little 3: Columbia, United Artists, Universal.
United Artists – Owned by the actors who worked there.
Many scholars date the Golden Age of Hollywood from
1924-1957. TV’s were invented and contributed towards the death of the Golden
Age.
For a time films became the property of new independent filmmakers.
There are now versions of old studios and new ones like
Tristar, Miramax and Film4.
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