Hollywood cinema

• when did the golden age of hollywood go on for

  mid 1920s- early 1950s
• what were the big 5 film studios

  warner brothers

  20th century fox

  MBM

  RKO

  paramount
• little 3

  universal

  columbia pictures

  united artists
• who were untied artists founded and ran by?

  Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, D.W Griffin
• vertical integration 


  describes ownership and control
• Oligopoly 


  a markets oligopoly a market or industry is dominated by a small number of sellers
• name one of the rules of the hays code?

  no nudity
• how long were kisses allowed to be

  3 seconds
• how long were actors contracted to a studio?

  7 years
• when did the first colour film come out

  1935
• when did the stock market crash happen?


  1929
• what was the failed unemployment rate of banks in the US in 1939

  33%
• what thing could studios control?

  an actors public image
• what styles did universal taylor too

  adventure and horror
• what style of film did columbia distribute

  comedy and romance
• what was the first talkie

  The Jazz singer 1927
• why would they change filming locations to california

  sun light

  little rain

  landscapes

  large open spaces
• how long did the hays code go on for?

  1930- 1968
• what was the 1st rule of the hays code?

  the sympathy from the audience should always be with the protagonist and has to show the antagonist in a bad light
• what was the 2nd hays code rule?

  correct standards of life
• what was the 3rd rule of the hays code?

  sympathy should not be created through violence
• no adultery

  ridicule of religion

  drinks or drugs

  homosexuailty

  scenes of passion

  methods of crime should not be shown
• vertically integrated


  meaning they didnt have the power to distribute them.
• Assembly lines films- entertainment factory

  each studio had its own style, this included stars
• what kind of movies did paramount realise

  comedies
• what films did MGM publish

  musicals
• what studio did mary pickford belong too?

  united artists
• what studio did Greta Garbo belong too

  MGM
• what studio did Joan crawford belong too

  MGM
• what studio did Mae West belong too

  Paramount
• when did Universal aquire distribution rights to Vertigo

  1964
• what were the hays code

  a set of censorship guidelines
• What Hitchcock film had a train going into a tunnel to connote sex?


  north by north west (1959)
• what was hitchcock known as?


  the master of violence
• n what film did Hitchcock have Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman engage in a  controversially long kiss

  notorious
• what is vertical integration 


  production, distribution and exhibition