PSC 2478 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Motion Picture Production Code, World War I
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Quotas on american-made movies were abolished due to wwi. Talkies made american movies less accessible to foreigners. 1950s opened the foreign market back up with better dubbing. Murdoch was the first european to dominate the film industry in germany. Messier tried doing the same in france, but failed. In the 1920s studios used the , a trade organization, to get around anti-trust laws. Instead the hays office was an in-house censorship tool. The was also used to lobby the govt to allow them to continue to control the censorship themselves and to make fair-competition practices to ensure their monopoly in entertainment. The big studios also kept their monopoly by keeping actors under tight contracts and only loaning each other the big actors. Was created for the big studios to coordinate their advertising and release dates, creating. Sony and time warner got to pass laws to make it illegal to copy-right , to protect their business.
