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H<strong>is</strong><strong>to</strong>ry of the Movie Industry: Hollywood• Hollywood was created in the early 1900s by a movie moguls• New York kept theatre, California did movies• California had a better climate so movies could be shot all yearround• Star System• 1930-1949 era of the Hollywood star system• Paramount Pictures (1912), Columbia Pictures (1920), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1924), Warner Brothers (1923) <strong>an</strong>d 20 th CenturyFox (1935) held long term contracts on star direc<strong>to</strong>rs <strong>an</strong>d ac<strong>to</strong>rs• United States v. Paramount Pictures ended the monopoly <strong>that</strong>movie studios had on movie theatres• independent <strong>film</strong>s grew• Telev<strong>is</strong>ion <strong>com</strong>peted for ac<strong>to</strong>rs <strong>an</strong>d audiences

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