The Studio system

The studio system: This program surveys Hollywood's industrial past during the era of contract players and directors, studio police forces and colourful movie moguls. It also overviews the modern film-making environment with studio heads Michael Eisner, Howard Koch and others. Paramount Pictures, one of the oldest and most successful of the Hollywood studios, serves as a case study.

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"The studio system: This program surveys Hollywood's industrial past during the era of contract players and directors, studio police forces and colourful movie moguls. It also overviews the modern film-making environment with studio heads Michael Eisner, Howard Koch and others. Paramount Pictures, one of the oldest and most successful of the Hollywood studios, serves as a case study."@en
"Film in the television age: Television arrived in American homes just as the Hollywood studio system was collapsing. As the new medium took hold, so did a new era in motion picture entertainment. Renowned directors, film scholars and actors trace the influence of each medium upon the other; from the live and fresh dramas of the Golden Age of Television and the growth of Hollywood spectacles to the modern day megalithic entertainment industry."@en
"Using Paramount Pictures as a case study, this program looks at the "factory system" perfected by major film studios in 1930s Hollywood. By the 1950s a new Hollywood emerged owned by huge corporations interested primarily in profit. Charlton Heston and Harrison Ford and others discuss the conflict between industry and artistry and the challenges facing studios today. Part 8 traces Hollywood's initial fear of television and how a new era of motion picture entertainment grew out of the advent of TV and also how television was influenced by the movies."@en
"Ex;ores the studio system of Hollywood using Paramount Studios as an example."@en
""The studio system" explores the art and commerce of moviemaking in the Golden age at Paramount, Hollywood's top Studio of the 1930's and '40's. "Film in the televison age" probes the dramatic changes in movies wrought by the small screen, from gimmicks like 3-D to the style created by filmmakers raised in the TV era."
"Using Paramount Pictures as an example, describes the studio system as it existed in the 1930s and '40s and the changes that have occurred since then. Actors et al. discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the studio system and explore the conflict between the movies as both art and business."
"Series exploring the creative development of filmmaking. This episode focuses on the relationship between film and television. From the studio's initial fear of television to the impact of home video distribution."
"Using Paramount Pictures as a case study, the program looks at the "factory system" perfected by major film studios in 1930s Hollywood. Explores the tensions in the industry between the artistic goals of the talent and the manufacturing goals of studio executives. Discusses how the industry was impacted by the separation of motion picture studios and motion picture theatres, television, the emergence of independent film makers, non-exclusive contracts, and conglomerate ownership. Includes commentary by motion picture producers, directors and actors, including Charlton Heston and Harrison Ford."@en
"Using Paramount Pictures as an example, The studio system documents the economics of filmmaking in America from the controlling industrial production of the studio system to the present multimedia entertainment environment. Topics include: creativity vs. business; talent raids for European talent; unions; cinema ownership; television's impact; innovative films of the 1970s; family blockbusters; global media."@en
"Explores the studio system of Hollywood using Paramount Studios as an example."@en
"Chronicles the development of television, and its impact on the motion picture industry. Examines how a new era of motion picture entertainment grew out of the arrival of television as well as how television was influenced by the movies. Includes interviews with directors Robert Altman and Sidney Lumet and actors Gena Rowlands and Peter Falk."@en
"Using Paramount Pictures as a case study, this program looks at the "factory system" perfected by major film studios in 1930s Hollywood. By the 1950s a new Hollywood emerged owned by huge corporations interested primarily in profit. Charlton Heston and Harrison Ford and others discuss the conflict between industry and artistry and the challenges facing studios today."
"Using Paramount Pictures as a case study, this program looks at the "factory system" perfected by major film studios in 1930s Hollywood. By the 1950s a new Hollywood emerged owned by huge corporations interested primarily in profit. Charlton Heston and Harrison Ford and others discuss the conflict between industry and artistry and the challenges facing studios today."@en