FILM 2401 Lecture : Oct 3 – The Coming of Sound. Hollywood Blossoms. .docx
4 Jan 2014
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Increased capital costs - companies needed to go to wall street to raise funds. Lead to more concentrated ownership in the industry. Lead to rise of new genres and the decline of some of the old ones (transformation of all genres) Shakes up employment in the movie industry loss of musician jobs and increase in other types of jobs - writers and sound technicians. Movie business turns into an oligopoly (control of the industry by a few companies) **companies were not vertically integrated by were involved in production and distribution. Established in 1934 as a solution to the censorship debated - run by. Pca had immense amount of power to chose what gets shown and not. 1950 relax rules a bit bc tv began to expand and they had their own morality issues. 1968 motion picture producers began regulating on attended audiences. Put song and dance into the activities of everyday life. Allegories about work and class in america.
