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The Motion Picture Patents Company (MPPC) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

The Members of the MPPC ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Some Benefits of the MPPC ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Why MPPC Failed ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],George Eastman and Thomas Edison

Technological Changes Affecting the Film Industry ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

The Major Beneficiaries of Sound ,[object Object],[object Object],All the other studios lost ground relative to these two upstarts.

Emergence of Movie Stars ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

(from left to right) Douglas Fair- banks, Mary Pickford, and Charlie Chaplin

The Economics of the Star System ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Adolph Zukor Tries to Rein In the Stars ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

(left to right): Jesse L. Lasky, Adolph Zukor, Samuel Goldfish (later Goldwyn), Cecil B. DeMille and Albert Kaufman.

The Big Five ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Source: adapted from Mae Huettig in Tino Balio (ed.), The American Film Industry .

The Little Three ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Every other studio is called an “independent” and has to sell or rent its pictures to one of the major studios because of their ownership of first-run theaters.

Years of Foundation of Major Studios

History of the Disney Studio ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

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