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Hollywood Studios
How many logos for Hollywood
studios can you recognise?
Vertical Integration
All of the Big Five studios were
vertically integrated.
Vertical integration where a
company is organised so that it
oversees a product from the
planning/development stage, through
production, to marketing, and
distribution, through to the
consumer.
Vertical Integration
During the studio era the Big Five
owned the production studios, the
distribution companies, and most of
the cinemasProduction
in theStudio
US.
Distribution
Cinemas
Ownership
Conglomerate
Parent Division
Major Studio
Subsidiary
Time Warner
Warner Bros.
Entertainment
News Corporation
Fox Filmed
Entertainment
Viacom
Paramount Motion
Pictures Group
Paramount Picture
Sony Corporation of
America
Sony Pictures
Entertainment
Columbia Pictures
Walt Disney
Pictures/Touchstone
Pictures
General Electric/
Vivendi
NBC Universal
Universal Studios
Market
Which of the Majors do you think is
the most successful.
Rank the studios market share:
20%
16%
14%
14%
12%
10%
Timeline
Create a timeline identifying key
stages in the American film industry.