Film studios

How did the studio system worked?

• Each studio produced its own films
• Actors and film makers were under contract to a certain system
• 8 studios operating

Five big studios

• created, produced, distributed and showed movies
• they owned all the movie making process and had their own theatres
• made a lot of money
• fox film corporation
• metro goldway meyer
• paramount
• RKO radio pictures
• Warner brothers

Little three

• Limited number of movie theatres
• Produced many movies but couldn’t show many movies
• Universal pictures
• Columbia Pictures
• United artists

Why did the studio system end?

• US federal laws changed
• Studios were did not have control to show their theatres
• Independent film makers could begin to complete

Task

• When and whom was the studio set up
• What were some of the best films by the studio
• Who were major stars and film makers on the studio
• Was there a particular genre and type of films the studio did?