Hollywood Studio System

During the golden age of Hollywood the film studios became very powerful. They handled every aspect of a movie from production to distribution. Any one who worked for the film studio was under contract from the actors to the set designers and beyond, everyone was the property of the studio. This started out in the 1930s and the studios would tell their employees that they can and can not do. If you were not willing to listen to the studio there was a chance you would be put on suspension[Learner]. “ The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business”[brainyquote]. This quote from Charlton Heston sums up what the studio system was about. The problem with the Studio System is

The producer of the film would tell directors how they want the movie to be shot not allowing them to direct the way they wanted to. Directors would have to argue with producers in order to get more creative freedom on their movies. Meanwhile the actors are almost collectors items for the studio. They would put them in multiple films with no creative freedom to act the way they see fit, they would also loan them out to other studios to be featured in different films. The actor had no say if whether or not they would be in a film and how they can act during scenes. Although there are problems there are also pluses to the Studio System. With this system, everyone was always working and busy, it was almost like a factory setting the way they turned out movies so quickly. This brought many actors into stardom and brought about the celebrity attached to actors. Even if an