Hollywood studios, sound and colour — Eduqas GCSE Film Studies C670
Eduqas GCSE Film Studies · C670
Hollywood studios, sound and colour
The timeline of film history
What you need to know
The rise of Hollywood in the 1920s: a vertically integrated studio system, with the Big Five (Paramount, Warner Bros, Loew's/MGM, Fox and RKO) and the Little Three (Columbia, Universal and United Artists).
The Jazz Singer (1927), directed by Alan Crosland, with Al Jolson in the lead: the first feature-length film with synchronised songs and speech, and how sound changed filmmaking.
Becky Sharp (1935), directed by Rouben Mamoulian: the first feature film in three-strip Technicolor.
The Paramount case of 1948, which ended the studios' ownership of cinemas and opened the way for independent production.
Short practice questions with answers, in the style of Question 4.
Practice questions to try, each headed 'Practice question' with its marks.
