You can learn a bit more about the time period in which these movie moguls ruled in the video below. Mayer (MGM), Jack Warner (Warner Bros.), Adolph Zukor (Paramount), and Darryl Zanuck (Fox). Most of these studios were fronted by major movie moguls who previously owned movie theaters in the 1910s before heading to Los Angeles to run their own studios. This made it extremely difficult for independent studios, distributors, and exhibitors to compete in the industry, but more on that later. All of which were 'vertically integrated' meaning that production, distribution, and exhibition were handled 'in-house.' They included Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Warner Bros., Paramount, Fox, and RKO. These were five major film studios that were responsible for the classical Hollywood system.

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