United States v. Paramount Pictures

World War II, the filmmaking industry experienced a dramatic change. The Paramount decision and the development of the Hollywood Blacklist created a hostile environment and a tumultuous time for the filmmaking industry. Although the effects would rattle the industry to its core, it was instrumental in shaping the filmmaking business into what we know today. United States v. Paramount Pictures (1948) was a landmark United States Supreme Court case that changed the way filmmakers, producers and theaters

The Supreme Court case United States vs. Paramount Pictures, Inc. caused drastic change in the entire system, leading to a completely new Hollywood. The Paramount Decision in 1948 incited a chain reaction of effects, including the fall of the studio system and a change in censorship, which gave directors more leverage in the making of their movies, ultimately developing into the self-conscious “auteur” directing that is characteristic of New Hollywood. Before the Paramount Decision, Hollywood’s studio

The United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. (1947) case deals with monopolies and antitrust laws. I chose the trusts/monopolies topic due to my interest in finance and economics. Since elementary school, I have been fascinated by John D. Rockefeller’s story about his oil monopoly. This history has caused me to be interested in monopolies and trusts. I began enjoy reading about the elite who obtained their wealth illegally. After reading and watching The Great Gatsby and watching the movie Catch

the industry” (Lewis, 2008, p. 194). This antitrust challenge would find a decade long hiatus. However, shortly after the end of the war, the “United States v. Paramount Pictures, et al.” (Lewis, 2008, p. 194) decision provided the spark that changed the Hollywood system and the fuel that fed the Hollywood blacklist. United States v. Paramount Pictures, et al, (1948) After thirteen adjournments beginning in 1938, and two compromise deals with the Big Five studios, the

In the Motion Picture Patent Company (Old Hollywood) era there was an emphasis on those that were producing and directing the movies. With the production team as the focal point, this allowed the production company to keep most of their profit by not having to pay actors top dollar prices. This system also instilled control over the actors, by keeping their names from being promoted not many people would know of the actor allowing the production companies to maintain their exclusive access to said

The Paramount decision that occurred in the spring of 1948 was a landmark United States Supreme Court Decision (National Constitution Center May 3,1948) in which led to the downfall of the studio system. The case known as the U.S Supreme Court v. Paramount Pictures (Paramount was just the first studio named in the suit according to Lewis “American Films” the others named were RKO, Warner Bros., 20th Century-Fox, Loew’s-MGM, Columbia, Universal and United Artist.) After ten years of avoiding a showdown

The 1948 “Paramount decision” and the mostly subsequent “Hollywood blacklist” can both be seen as pieces of the larger, 30-year process of breaking up the “studio system”; each altered the course of filmmaking in America to a greatly varying degree. The former signaled the end of the beginning of studio divestiture and the “Studio system” while the latter is a microcosm of the “McCarthyism” taking place in the greater American society at the time and the fear and turmoil created by any large scale

The studio system by definition is a system which was used during the Golden Age of Hollywood, is a method of film production and distribution dominated by a small number of “major” studios in Hollywood. The Golden Age was actually built upon the studio system and this began during the silent age. The Studio system was created by eight major studios that actually survived the conversion to sound and the financial crisis of 1929. They had different strategies for going fourth with this system, one

came the birth of Hollywood. As Hollywood progressed, stars were made and so were millions. But these millions of dollars were being given to the top 8 companies in the industry, The Big Five: Warner Bros., MGM/Loew’s, Paramount, 20th Century Fox, and RKO, and The Little Three: United Artists, Columbia, and Universal. These companies controlled how their films were made, where they were shown, which films played first and for how long, a clear example of vertical integration. Most of them bought a

Abstract Enclosed in the Constitution of the United States is a Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights lists rights that each citizen has. The Fourth Amendment details one of those rights that US citizens have against unlawful search and seizure. The world is vastly different than the time that the Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution of the United States. Search and seizure grew to other areas as the United States advanced. Acquiring digital evidence is a function of computer forensics and computer