During the 1920s, and 1930s the Hollywood film studios undertook a major evolutionary period. The inception of the Hollywood ‘studio system’ was to change the film making process radically. The following essay will examine how these changes took place, and what impact it had on the film making industry in America. We shall also examine how the system relates to the current production methods used in film making. The main issues raised within the text …showed first 75 words of 1454 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1454 total…Witch Project. However, it is still the main studios who ultimately dominate the market. Columbia or 20th Century Fox have the resources to make big budget films, hire stars, and heavily market their product. The independent companies have little chance to grow because film makers are immediately lured to the major studios following a successful film. This essentially puts them back to ‘square one’, as small fish sharing a pond with some very big sharks.