[DOC] [TLE] Studio system - Wikipedia [PAR] The studio system is a method of film production and distribution dominated by a 
small number ... The eighth of the Golden Age majors, United Artists, owned a 
few theaters ... steps in establishing studio system control of the American film 
business. ... Paramount, the most profitable studio of the early sound era (1928
30),... [DOC] [TLE] Cinema of the United States - Wikipedia [PAR] The cinema of the United States, often metonymously referred to as Hollywood, 
has had a ... Today, American film studios collectively generate several hundred 
movies .... Soon they were the heads of a new kind of enterprise: the movie studio
. .... Theaters  as Paramount was also gaining dominance through actors like... [DOC] [TLE] Major film studio - Wikipedia [PAR] A major film studio is a production and film distributor that releases a substantial 
number of films annually and consistently commands a significant share of box 
office revenue in a given market. In the North American, Western, and global 
markets, the major film studios, ... The Big Six major studios are today primarily 
backers and distributors of films... [DOC] [TLE] Film History of the 1920s - Greatest Films [PAR] Film theaters and studios were not initially affected in this decade by the Crash in 
late ... They produced more than 90 percent of the fiction films in America and ... 
Paramount studios in 1927, and was officially named Paramount Pictures in 1935
. Its greatest silent era stars were Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, and... [DOC] [TLE] The American Film Industry in the Early 1950s - Dictionary definition ... [PAR] Paramount, MGM, Fox, Warner, and RKOoften referred to as the "five major ... 
In many cases, they did not compete head-to-head with one another. ... American 
movies were popular in all of these countries, but Britain and France in .... very 
high $1,787,700.34 In a period of marginal profits, the control of spending could 
be... [DOC] [TLE] The Big Picture: Money and Power in Hollywood - WorldCat [PAR] Virtually all of these movies and shorts came from regional exchanges owned ... 
in turn, owned by seven Hollywood studios: Paramount, Universal, MGM, 
Twentieth ... origins in the arcades, nickelodeons, and exhibition halls of the 
silent-film era. ... extremely efficiently because they controlled almost all the 
movie theaters. [DOC] [TLE] cineCollage :: Hollywood's Classical Period [PAR] The films of the 1930s and 1940s in Hollywood consolidated an industry and 
gave rise to ... Of these, Columbia and Universal both lacked theater chains (
Universal owned ... MGM was widely considered the Tiffany of all the studios, 
making allstar vehicles ... Paramount controlled more theaters than any of its 
competitors. [DOC] [TLE] NOW PLAYING - THE NEW HOLLYWOOD - NYTimes.com [PAR] Jan 10, 1988 ... Raunchy teen-age comedies clogged the theaters like cholesterol in aging ... But 
they still carry the same names - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, United Artists, 20th ... did 
in 1935, they still control most of what goes on in the movie industry. ... In this era 
of deregulation, the studios are attempting to control their own... [DOC] [TLE] Exhibition and the classichollywood system - Exhibition - film, movie ... [PAR] These strategies continued to play a central role in film exhibition until the end of 
the ... which enabled the "Big Five" major studios (MGM, Paramount, RKO, 
Warner Bros., and Twentieth Century Fox) to control the distribution of the films 
they produced. ... including impressive new theaters, like the 2,400-seat Loew's 
National. [DOC] [TLE] The studio system [PAR] During the Golden Age of Hollywood, the film studios became incredibly powerful
. They controlled the production, distribution and exhibition of films. ... Paramount 
Pictures, MGM, Universal, and Twentieth Century Fox completely controlled .... 
The large companies all owned the theatres, and at the height of the studio era,... [DOC] [TLE] History of Hollywood, California - United States History [PAR] The role of History of Hollywood, California in the history of the United States of 
America. ... The town's name

Question: An era in American movies is named for these, like Paramount & MGM, when they controlled the theaters
Answer: the studios