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• Hollywood's Golden Age

2. Hollywood's Golden Age The 1930's and 1940's comprise the Golden Age of Hollywood:

• Big Money 3. Studio System 4. Star System 5. Colour and Sound

6. Big Money

Movies were an unprecedented mass medium during the 1930's and 1940's.During the war years an estimated 85-90 million people went out to see a movie a week (that's over half of the U.S. Population at the time). 7. A-movies and B-movies (Double Bills) 8. Newsreels , Serials, Singalongs

9. The Studio System

TheStudio Systemallowed Hollywood to become an international powerhouse, both financially and culturally: 10. The Big Studios:MGM, Paramount, 20 thCentury Fox, RKO, and Warner Brothers 11. Assembly Line production 12. Vertical Integration:control of production, distribution, and exhibition

13. The Star System

TheStar Systemcapitalized on the concept of the Hollywood Star as commodity, and through exclusive contracts, the studios controlled and manipulated their products in the studios' best interests. Clark Gable Greta Garbo Cary Grant

14. The Advent of Sound and C o l o u r

The Jazz Singer (1927) Gone with the Wind (1939)

Talkies emerged as a simple novelty initially.They were often poor quality productions, and the introduction of sounddialogue hampered the flexibility of what had been an almost exclusively visual medium. 15. Colourtinting had been used in film almost from the start, but the marriage of movies and colour was not consummated until the mid 1930's.

16. Great Directors

Howard Hawks John Ford Frank Capra

Other Greats:King Vidor, Billy Wilder, David Lean, William Wyler, John Huston, Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles

17. Big Films

Casablanca The Wizard of Oz Stagecoach

Other great films of the 1930's and 1940's:It's a Wonderful Life, Scarface, Duck Soup, King Kong

18. Citizen Kane