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Title: The Hollywood Studio System in 1930
Description: An introduction into the 1930s Hollywood studio system which saw the arrival of the 'big 5'. University of Southampton, Film Studies, Mike Hammond.
Description: An introduction into the 1930s Hollywood studio system which saw the arrival of the 'big 5'. University of Southampton, Film Studies, Mike Hammond.
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The Studio System at the beginning of the decade
(1930)
Screening: All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
- Production cycle; series of films are made not a certain genre but a style, an industry
attempt to capitalise on thing that were already there
- Aims; why do they look they way they do and what is the context?
David O
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- This was achieved at all three levels
Exhibition
- Money was in the buildings (picture houses); big five diversified theatre chains
- Exhibition was the most capital intensive part of the business, accounting for the
largest investment
Run/Zone/Clearance
- The big five owned the largest theatres through this system achieved maximum profits
- ‘Runs’ of films are organised around categories of first, second, third etc
- The first runs were usually in the main urban large seated cinema owned by the
major, second would be the smaller local chains and third were small urban zones
- Clearance; held films back after the first run, then put them in a second zone theatre,
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- Clearance; the exhibition pattern of films utilised clearance periods
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- Combined with First National to acquire a theatre chain and become vertically
integrated
- They produced The Jazz Singer even through it caused major debt
- Produced realist style
MGM
- Formed in 1924
- Run by Louis B
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Title: The Hollywood Studio System in 1930
Description: An introduction into the 1930s Hollywood studio system which saw the arrival of the 'big 5'. University of Southampton, Film Studies, Mike Hammond.
Description: An introduction into the 1930s Hollywood studio system which saw the arrival of the 'big 5'. University of Southampton, Film Studies, Mike Hammond.