Studio system

The studio system is a name given to the means of film production popular in Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s. The studio system referred to the practice of motion picture studios pursuing vertical integration. Additionally, many studios used block booking, a system of selling multiple films to a theater as a unit. Such a unit, frequently twenty films, typically comprised only one or two good films, the rest perceived as monetary filler to bolster the studio's finances. With the outlawing of block booking in a 1948 federal court case, the studio system effectively came to a close.

Related Topics:
Hollywood - Vertical integration

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