Abstract
While the structure of the industry that was to endure until the 1950s had largely emerged by 1925, not all the big companies that were to dominate Hollywood from the 1930s had yet established themselves as major powers. Four other companies soon forced themselves into strong positions in a market which Paramount, First National and Loew’s (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) dominated.
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Douglas Gomery, ‘Writing the History of the American Film Industry: Warner Brothers and Sound’, Screen, 17, 1 (Spring 1976) p. 46;
Charles Higham, Warner Brothers (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1975) pp. 40–5.
Robinson, p. 18; Alexander Walker, The Shattered Silents (London: Elm Tree Books, 1978) p. 5.
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Walker, p. 82; John Shepherd, Tin Pan Alley (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982) pp. 84–6.
Fred E. Basten, Glorious Technicolor (London: Thomas Yoseloff, 1979) pp. 40–1, 46.
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Izod, J. (1988). The Coming of Sound, 1926–29. In: Hollywood and the Box Office, 1895–1986. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19324-0_7
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