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The Studio System During The Golden Age Of Hollywood
The studio system is a method of which film production and distribution is dominated by a small number of major Hollywood Studios (Waldrop, J, 2013). During the Golden Age of Hollywood, studio system was organized into eight studios. The five major studios were Paramount Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Warner Bros., 20th Century Fox, and RKO Radio Pictures. The three minor studio were Universal Studios, Columbia Pictures, and United Artists. The eight movie studios wrote, produced, and distributed their own films. This age lasted from the 1920’s with the introduction of sound in movies to the 1960’s with the introduction to television. The studio system lasted nearly four decades and was coined the Golden Age of Hollywood. During the Golden
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