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Film Studies (Exam 1) Questions and answers latest update
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Film Studies (Exam 1) Questions andanswers latest update
The Big Five ("Majors") - correct answers Paramount, Loew's/MGM,
Twentieth Century Fox, Warner Brothers, RKO (owned
production/theatres/had monopoly)
The Little Three ("Minors") - correct answers Universal, Columbia,
United Artists
The Independents ("Poverty Row" Studios) - correct answers Grand
National, Republic Pictures, Monogram Pictures
A Pictures - correct answers Big Budget
Popular
Big Stars
well known story properties
3 weeks- 3 months shooting time
B Pictures - correct answers recognizable stars or character actors
shorter running times
,fast/cheap productions
"House Style" - correct answers a company's preferred manner of
presentation and layout of written material.
Prestige Picture - correct answers A prestige picture is typically a big-
budget special based on a presold property, often as not a "classic," and
tailored for top stars.
-REMAKES, stories we already know! Put big stars in them!
Vertical Integration - correct answers the ownership or effective control
of distributors and exhibition (the supply chain is owned by the Big
Five)
The Paramount Decision - correct answers United States vs. Paramount
Pictures, 1948
-afterwards, theaters could buy single movies (resulted in teenage
demographic and independent producers)
-the existing distribution of power is flawed!
-changes the way Hollywood movies are produced and distributed and
exhibited!
, Studio System - correct answers Industrial structure of Hollywood from
1917-1948 (the eight studios)
Block-Booking - correct answers Theatres used to have to buy movies in
bundles of 20 (today they pick and choose)
Blind-Bidding - correct answers Buying movie bundles and not knowing
what they are
Censorship - correct answers 1934- Production Code Administration
established
-written by two men (publisher and priest)
-wanted film to contain moral content
-kiss lightly btw man and woman (no sex)
-crime, violence, blasphemy heavily regulated (or not allowed unless
redeemed)
-no human suffering (gentle deaths)
1930, 1934 - correct answers Production Code written, Production Code
Administration established (PCA)
1968 - correct answers Film rating system established
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