I decided to write this paper on the documentary film by director Marilyn Agrelo titled Mad Hot Ballroom. This film is about a ballroom dance program in the New York City public school system for fifth grade students and pays particular attention to three schools in the neighborhoods of Tribeca, Bensonhurst, and Washington Heights. In this program the students are taught several dance styles that include: tango, foxtrot, swing, rumba, and merengue over a ten week period to prepare for an opportunity
The Paramount decision and the Hollywood blacklist were two major events that took place in the Golden Age of Hollywood. These events ultimately forever altered the direction of the film industry in the United Sates. These two historical events were part of what was viewed as the beginning of the fall of the old studio system. In the 1920s to the late 1940s there were 5 very powerful and influential Hollywood film studios which were commonly known as the ‘Big 5.’ These studios were made up of Fox
Destiny Monroig September 24, 2015 College Writing 110 Rough Draft TITLE(?) With voyeurism comes consequences. Just ask L.B. Jefferies, he’d know all about it. Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 movie Rear Window depicts the struggles of photographer L.B. Jefferies as he’s forced to stay home in a wheelchair due to a leg injury. To deal with his frustration at being stuck home he takes to spying on his neighbors. With the use
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
History is the first book to describe and analyse the complete development, classic operation, and reinvention of the global corporate entities which produce and distribute most of the films we watch. Starting in 1920, Adolph Zukor, head of Paramount Pictures, over the decade of the 1920s helped to fashion Hollywood into a vertically integrated system, a set of economic innovations which was firmly in place by 1930. For the next three decades, the movie industry in the United States and the
Paramount Pictures, INC. This Supreme Court decision outlawed block booking which was a common practice in Hollywood specifically by the “Big Five” studios (Paramount, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Warner Bros., Twentieth Century Fox, and RKO Radio Pictures) in which they purchased numerous seats in theaters to drive up ticket prices and overall
THE SEARCH FOR A FORMAT In order to begin broadcasting news on the television, NBC had to find the perfect format that could easily be understood by the audience. They started by experimenting with the combination of the method used by radio stations and the method used by theatrical newsreels. The news-anchor would recite the news while music played in the background, complimenting photos, filmed events, and headlines that were displayed on the screen. This program was first used by NBC in 1940
There are many faces of accounting, such as Broadway, NFL teams, Universities, and even Apple. However, the one I decided to learn about is movie productions. The movie production I decided to expand on is Lionsgate. Lionsgate is an American/Canadian entertainment company, formed on July 10, 1997, in Vancouver, Canada. It is currently being headquartered in Santa Monica, California. They have made very well known movies, such as “The Hunger Games” series and the “Twilight” series. And now I’m going
Paramount, one of the big five Hollywood studio corporations, controlled the most amount of theatres in the United States during the 1930s and 40s. This meant they had an advantage when the economy in the US turned around after the great depression. This being said, many more factors come into play when defining to what extent the studio is a typical representation of a major Hollywood studio corporation in the 1930s and 40s. In this essay I will be going in depth into what extent Paramount is a
Frank Capra, a leading figure in the film industry, had created many remarkable masterpieces from the era of the Great Depression all the way through the Second Great War. Not only did he face the innovating changes of movie life, such as the change from silent to sound film-making, he had has made a great impact on the lives of Americans. Frank Capra was born on May 18, 1897. Capra, was initially named Francesco Rosario Capra, changed it after he had immigrated to America with his family from Italy
In the movie, Rear Window, Alfred Hitchcock uses the story of a cripple free lance photographer, Jeff Jeffries, to explain the twisted sense of society in the 1950’s. Hitchcock uses clever things from the way the apartments are being filmed to the dialogue between Jeffries, Lisa, and Stella to show societies interest in pain, tragedy, and discomfort, and in the end you see how tragedy is what makes everyone happy. From the very beginning of Rear Window we encounter scenes where Hitchcock shows Stella
Aldeen Adolphus March 2014 Film Film influence on American culture Movies have had an influence on the American culture through the content of various issues. In American movies, the characters take on such issues as social reform, political views, and emotional turmoil. Movies have changed people's attitudes about consuming information. Today, movies quickly give us a visual picture of where and what the characters are doing. Most movies neatly package a story into less than two hours of carefully
as he in unable to sell his scripts to the ‘majors’ of Hollywood. The film follows Joe to ‘Paramount Pictures’ one of the major studios in Hollywood, which the film pays a large self reference to as the producers of Sunset Boulevard as well as representing the studio system. An example in the film that highlights the demise of the studio system is when Joe pitches a script idea to a producer of Paramount. Joe is quick to say that the film only needs one main character, has many outdoor locations
The Golden Age of Hollywood began in the late 1930s with five major film studios at the lead. MGM, Paramount, Warner Brothers, RKO and Fox studios were considered the “Big Five” of all studios, and they controlled the studios like efficient factories that have produced some of cinemas greatest films. The studio system as it was called was a system that managed with, expert efficiency, a studios workforce including but not limited to contracted laborers and had complete control over studio talent
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]
control this end-to-end process is the studio system. The control these five majors studios exhibited over the industry allowed them to manipulate the market and ultimately kept the edge of competition among themselves. These five studios were MGM, Paramount, Fox, Warner Bros, and RKO Radio. While the major five’s dominance was unquestionable, there were still three smaller studios that held a measurable market share while not fully demonstrating all aspects of the studio system. The smaller competitors
The paramount decision of 1948, broke up the big time film companies. Paramount, MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), Warner-brothers and the like, controlled the movie industry from imagination to opening night. They had control over every aspect of the film industry and created a form of monopoly that maximized their profits, which they needed to, given the studio system of the 1930’s and 40’s. The Studio system of the Golden Age was a largely profit oriented system. It was quantity of quality in that time
Hiring In-Laws: A Bad Idea Many successful small businesses have been ruined by bringing in-laws in to the family business. As these in-laws struggle to establish a voice in the company, meaning well, they often wind up destroying them. As the owner of the family business, it is your job to avoid situations that could hurt or hinder your business. In this case you should assume a few often overlooked points: When approaching your business, never think of it in terms of one happy family.
Youth for Western Civilization, originally published in 1928. This book made the exotic and misunderstood cultures of the Samoans tangible for the general population. Mead’s special effort to debunk the myth of unavoidable childish adolescence was paramount in her work in Samoa, specifically adolescent females. Margaret Mead established in her work, Coming of Age in Samoa, that adolescence does not need to be the unwieldy and uncomfortable period in life that Western culture portrayed as “stormily”
Catherine Lucille Moore's Shambleu and Greek Mythology Throughout history, humans have had legends, myths and folk tales. Many of these dealt with monsters that cannot be found on the planet Earth, at least any more, especially the myths of ancient Greece. In such cases, there can be a fine line between where myth ends and science fiction starts. In Catherine Lucille Moore’s short story "Shambleau," one such myth crosses that line. That myth is the ancient Greek myth of the Gorgons. Gorgons