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The Evolution of Film Production and Distribution

This quiz explores the pivotal changes in film production and distribution from the 1970s to the 1980s, including shifts in creative control and the roles of key personnel in the film industry.

1 Changes in movie and film distribution and ________ in the 1970s and '80s gave rise to the modern-day phenomenon of the Hollywood blockbuster, which tended to bring power back into the hands of the producer.

2 In the ________, with the demise of Hollywood's studio system in the 1950s, creative control began to shift into the hands of the director.

3 Director of audiography/________/Supervising Sound Editor

💡 Interesting Facts

  • Little Miss Sunshine producer David T. Friendly is the son of former CBS president Fred W. Friendly.
  • John Warren Davis, a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, was indicted for receiving a bribe from film producer William Fox.
  • American film director Jim Fields recently wrote, produced and directed a documentary called Bugeaters.
  • after serving as personal assistant to Tom Cruise, Michael Doven became a film producer.
  • as a child, B.A. Rolfe was billed as "The Boy Trumpet Wonder", and that he went on to become a bandleader and significant film producer.
  • HanWay Films was originally founded by British film producer Jeremy Thomas as an adjunct of his Recorded Picture Company.
  • John Travolta's older brother Joey Travolta produced the documentary film about autism Normal People Scare Me.
  • Filipino film producer Narcisa de Leon did not start her career in the film industry till she was 61 years old.
  • film producer Neil Kopp stood in as a location scout, location manager, assistant director and grip while filming Old Joy.
  • film producer Shauna Robertson became an assistant to filmmaker Mike Binder after meeting him at the summer camp memorialized in his 1993 film Indian Summer.
  • film producers Keith Calder, Felipe Marino and Joe Neurauter acquired their first script within a week of forming their production company, Occupant Films.
  • American film producer Sandy Stern's producing partner is R.E.M.'s lead singer Michael Stipe.