Film Industry / Old Hollywood

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HOLLYWOOD NOTES

  • Hollywood is a metonym. 
  • A place in southern california. 
  • Can be associated with fame, celebs and the film industry.
  • Film was made in france.
  • Lumiere brothers.
  • Hollywood became more americanised as american films were in english while french were in french so the english films became more popular, another reason would be that europe was at war so not enough time to make films.
FORDIST - Followed by Henry Ford's method of making cars, where one studio works with crews on one genre of film.

VERTICAL INTEGRATION - Companies controlling all means of production, distribution and consumption. The companies own all actors and rights etc. 

THE BIG FIVE STUDIOS:

  • Radio Pictures (RKO)
ESTABLISHED - 23rd October 1928
EARLY STUDIO HEADS - Joseph P Kennedy
FAMOUS STARS -  Katharine Hepburn, Walt Disney, Ingrid Bergman, 
MOST SUCCESSFUL FILM - Citizen Kane (1941)
  • Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM)

ESTABLISHED - 17th April 1924
EARLY STUDIO HEADS - Louis B Mayer
FAMOUS STARS - Judy Garland, Greta Garbo, Gene Kelly, Cary Grant and Frank Sinatra.
MOST SUCCESSFUL FILM - Gone With The Wind (1939)
  • 20th Century Fox

ESTABLISHED - 31st May 1935
EARLY STUDIO HEADS -  William Fox
FAMOUS STARS - Marilyn Monroe, Shirley Temple, 
MOST SUCCESSFUL FILM - All About Eve (1950)
  • Warner Bros.

ESTABLISHED - 4th April 1923
EARLY STUDIO HEADS - Albert and Jack Warner
FAMOUS STARS -  Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis, Clint Eastwood, Paul Newman
MOST SUCCESSFUL FILM - Streetcar named Desire (1951)
  • Paramount Pictures.

ESTABLISHED - 8th May 1912
EARLY STUDIO HEADS -  William Wadsworth Hodkinson 
FAMOUS STARS -  Gloria Swanson, Audrey Hepburn, Mary Pickford, 
MOST SUCCESSFUL FILM - Rear Window (1954)
ANTITRUST LAWS -  In the late 1940s the US government put an end to vertical integration, as the studios only showed their own movies in their own cinemas, this doesn't allow room for smaller studios to succeed and so the studios were forced to sell their cinemas off.


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