¶ … movie industry in America has been controlled by some of the monolithic companies which not only provided a place for making the movies, but also made the movies themselves and then distributed it throughout the entire country. These are movie companies and their entire image revolved around the number of participants of their films. People who wanted to see the movies being made had to go to the "studios" in order to see them. They made movies in a profitable manner for the sake of the studios, but placed the entire industry under their control and dominated over it. The discussion here is about some of those famous studios inclusive of that of names like Metro Goldwyn Mayer, Culver, RKO, Paramount Studios, Warner Bros, 20th Century Fox, Walt Disney Studios, Universal Studios, Raleigh Studio, Hollywood Center Studio, Sunset Gower Studio, Ren-Mar Studios, Charlie Chaplin Studios and now, Manhattan Beach Studio. In the past there were different kinds of movies being made by different kinds of studios. A Warner's picture looked completely different from a Paramount picture, which again looked very different from a MGM picture, which was also very different from a Republic picture, and again different from an RKO picture. Now, you go and you see the same people in the same movies. The stars may be in a Miramax movie this week, but two months ago may have been in a 20th Century Fox picture. Thus there is no longer that kind of differentiation of expression. The usage of the studios has also changed from the times that they were set up in, and that is probably expected.
Film History
At one stage, the history and culture of United States spread all through the world, and one of the main instruments of this "cultural expansion" was Hollywood. The entire production of films was being controlled by some studios and they had total control over the industry. In casual usage, the term has become confused with production companies as in the United States, the important well-known production companies of the "Golden Era of Film" usually owned their own studio subsidiaries during the period from 1925-1960. However, throughout the world, as well as in the U.S.A., most production companies do not own their own studios but rent needed space at independently-owned studios. The studios generally do not produce a film directly. (Movie studio) At the early stage, the movie industry in America was being controlled by some studios of Hollywood, and the control was not only for production of pictures, but an indirect control of emotions and feelings. Among the studios, the first was Warner Bros incorporated in 1923, and then was MGM in 1924, Columbia Pictures, and MCA in the same period. Then was the starting of RKO Pictures in 1928 and in 1926 was the expenditure of Lasky Corporation of $1 million on United Studio's property where Paramount Pictures was located from 1935. (Hollywood Film Studios in the 20s)
The greatest among these studios was probably MGM. This is now known as Sony Picture Studios 10202, W. Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA and is situated seven miles southwest of Hollywood and vine. The origin of the studios was as Triangle Pictures in 1915. The first building on the lot was built even before MGM owned the place and the studio became Metro Goldwyn Mayer in 1924. Louis B. Mayer persuaded both the then President Calvin Coolidge and performer Will Rogers to come for the grand opening. The name was a combination of Metro which was an earlier film company belonging to showman Marcus Loew, Goldwyn was from producer Samuel Goldwyn and Mayer from Louis B. Mayer. This was the most powerful among all studios in Hollywood with its glossy, bright, Technicolor films along with lavish wardrobes, high priced sets and a large number of stars under contract. (The Historic MGM Studios)
Among the stars under contract were Clark Gable, Jimmy Stewart, Frank Sinatra, Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers, Gene Kelly, Elizabeth Taylor, Lucille Ball, Jean Harlow, Laurel & Hardy, Esther Williams, Buster Keaton, Greta Garbo, Red Skeleton, Bette Davis, Jimmy Durante, Margaret O'Brien, Donna Reed, Robert Young, Lana Turner, Jane Powell, Wallace Beery & Marjorie Main, Peter Lawford, Joan Crawford, Lionel Barrymore, Paul Newman, Kathryn Grayson, Hedy Lamarr,...
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