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Film History of the 1. Foundations of the Prolific Film Industry: Films really blossomed in the 1. Most US film production at the. Hollywood on the West Coast, although. New Jersey and in Astoria on Long.

Island (Paramount). By the mid- 2. 0s, movies were big business (with a capital. By the end of the decade, there were 2. Hollywood studios, and. Most people are unaware that. US occurred in the 1. Throughout most of the decade, silent films were the predominant.

But the films were becoming bigger (or longer), costlier, and more polished. They were being manufactured, assembly- line style, in Hollywood's 'entertainment. Even. the earliest films were organized into genres. The major genre emphasis was on swashbucklers, historical.

Films varied from sexy melodramas and. Cecil B. De. Mille, to westerns (such as Cruze's The. Covered Wagon (1.

Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North. Chaplin, Keaton, and Lloyd). The Major Film Studios: The Big Five. Great. War and the Depression following the Stock Market Crash. Film theaters. and studios were not initially affected in this decade by the Crash in. The basic patterns and foundations of the film industry (and.

The studio. system was essentially born with long- term contracts for stars, lavish. After. World War I and into the early 1. America was the leading producer. Thomas Ince's "factory system". Production was in the hands of the major studios (that really flourished.

Originally, in the earliest years of the motion picture. When the industry rapidly grew, these functions became. There were eight major (and minor) studios (see below) that. They were the ones that had most successfully. By. 1. 92. 9, the film- making firms that were to rule and monopolize Hollywood.

The Big Five. They. America. and distributed their films both nationally and internationally. Each. studio somewhat differentiated its products from other studios.

See. History of Film Studio Logos. The Big Five Studios. Logos. 1. Warner Bros. Pictures was. incorporated in 1. Polish brothers (Jack, Harry, Albert.

Sam). In 1. 92. 5, Warner Brothers merged with First National. Warner Bros.- First National Pictures.

The studio's. first principal asset was Rin Tin Tin. It became prominent by. The. Jazz Singer (1.

It was known as the "Depression studio.". In the 4. 0s, it specialized in Bugs Bunny animations and.

Adolph. Zukor's. Famous Players (1. Jesse Lasky's Feature Play. Famous Players- Lasky. Corporation. It. spent $1 million on United Studios' property (on Marathon Street). The Famous Players- Lasky Corporation became Paramount studios.

Paramount Pictures in. Its greatest silent era stars were Mary Pickford. Douglas Fairbanks, and Rudolph Valentino; Golden Age stars.

Mae West, W. C. Fields, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and. Cecil B. De. Mille. RKO (Radio- Keith- Orpheum). Pictures, evolved from the Mutual Film Corporation (1. RCA. It was formed by RCA, Keith- Orpheum. Theaters. and the FBO Company (Film Booker's.

Organization) - which was owned by Joseph P. Kennedy (who had.

Mutual). This was. It kept financially afloat. Astaire- Rogers musicals in. King. Kong (1. 93. Citizen Kane. (1.

At one time, RKO was acquired by eccentric. Howard Hughes. 1. Marcus Loew of Loew's. Inc., was the parent firm of what eventually became Metro- Goldwyn- Mayer.

Metro Pictures Corporation was a production. Richard A. Rowland and Louis B. Mayer. In 1. 91. 8, Mayer left this partnership to start up his.

Louis B. Mayer Pictures. In 1. 92. 0, Metro Pictures Corporation (with. Goldwyn Pictures Corporation).

Marcus Loew of Loew's Inc. In another acquisition, Loew merged his Metro- Goldwyn production. Louis B. Mayer Pictures. So, in summary, MGM,first named Metro- Goldwyn Pictures. US film. production companies: Metro Pictures Corporation (1. Goldwyn. Pictures Corporation (1.

Louis B. Mayer Pictures. Company (1. 91. 8) The famous MGM lion roar in the studio's opening. Irving Thalberg (nicknamed the 'boy wonder'). MGM from 1. 92. 4 until his death in. Its greatest. early successes were The. Big Parade (1. 92. Broadway Melody (1.

Grand. Hotel (1. 93. Mutiny on the. Bounty (1. A Night. at the Opera (1.

The Good Earth (1. Gone. With the Wind (1. The. Wizard of Oz (1. Tarzan films, Tom and Jerry cartoons.

Clark Gable, Greta Garbo, and Spencer. Tracy. 1. 91. 6- 1.

Fox. Film Corporation/Foundation. NY nickelodeon owner William Fox (originally.

Its first film was Life's. Shop Window (1. 91. In 1. 93. 5, it became 2.

Century Fox. formed from the merger of two companies: 2. Century. Pictures Company (founded. Darryl F. Zanuck, the head of production at Warners. Joseph Schenck, brother of Nicholas Schenk, president of. Loew's, the parent company of MGM)Fox. Film It became most known for Fox.

Movietone news and then B- westerns; it was also famous. Shirley Temple films in the mid- 3. Betty Grable musicals.

Pre- 1. 93. 0 1. 93. The Big- Five studios had vast studios with elaborate sets. They owned their own film- exhibiting theatres (about. US in mostly first- run houses. They. distributed their films to this network of studio- owned, first- run theaters.

They required blind or block bookings. B- pictures) in order for the.

A- level picture. This technique set the terms. Monopolistic studio.

U. S. vs. Paramount) ordered the studios to divest their theatres. MPPC - the Edison Trust.] The Minor Film Studios: The Little Three.

Three smaller, minor studios were dubbed The Little. Three, because each of them lacked one of the three elements. The Little Three Studios Logos 1. Universal. Pictures. Universal Film Manufacturing Co) was founded by Carl. Laemmle in 1. 91.

It was formed from a merger of Laemmle's own IMP - Independent. Motion Picture Company (founded in 1. Bison 1. 01. the U.

S. production facilities of French studio Éclair. Nestor Film Co., and several other film companies. Its first successes. W. C. Fields and Abbott and Costello comedies, the Flash. Gordon serial. and Woody Woodpecker cartoons. United Artists was. Mary Pickford, Douglas.

Fairbanks, Sr., Charlie Chaplin, and director D. Divx Ipod Canvas more. W. Griffith. as an independent company to produce and distribute their films. United Artists utilized an 1.

Pickford and Fairbanks, known as the Pickford- Fairbanks. Studio, and later named United. Artists Studio in the 1.

Columbia Pictures was originally the C. B. C. Film Sales Corporation founded in 1. Jack and Harry Cohn, and Joseph Brandt, and officially named Columbia in. Their studios opened at the old location of Christie- Nestor. Studios. It established prominence with It. Happened One Night (1. Rita Hayworth films, Lost.

Horizon (1. 93. 7), The Jolson Story (1. Batman serials. 1. Poverty Row" Studios and Other Independents: Other studios or independents also existed in a shabby. Hollywood dubbed "Poverty Row" (Sunset Blvd.

Gower Street) where cheap, independent pictures were made with low. It was the site of Harry. Jack Cohn's new business, the C. B. C. Film Sales Company (later. Columbia Pictures).

Many of the films of the independents. Disney Studios - specializing in animation. Walt and Roy Disney originally opened their first studio in 1. Los Angeles in the back of the Holly- Vermont Realty office, and called. Disney Bros. Studio; in a few years, they opened a new facility. LA; in the late 3. Burbank, and changed their name to Walt Disney Productionsthe Monogram Picture Corporation - Rayart.

Pictures, which had taken over the old Selig Studio in Echo. Park in 1. 92. 4, became Monogram Pictures in 1.

W. Ray Johnston to make mostly inexpensive Westerns and series (Charlie. Chan, the Bowery Boys, etc.)Selznick. International Pictures / David O. Selznick - it was formed in 1. David O. Selznick (previously the head of production. RKO), the son of independent film producer Lewis J.

Selznick. the founder of Selznick Pictures. Samuel Goldwyn Pictures - headed up by independent.

Samuel L. Goldwyn. Republic Pictures - founded in 1. Consolidated Film Industries, Mascot. Monogram and Liberty, and headed by Herbert Yates of Consolidated Extravagant Movie Palaces: The major film studios built luxurious 'picture palaces' that were designed.

The 3,3. 00- seat.