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Hollywood Vault - Film Libraries before Home Video (Paperback)
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Hollywood Vault - Film Libraries before Home Video (Paperback)
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"Hollywood Vault" is the story of how the business of film
libraries emerged and evolved, spanning the silent era to the sale
of feature libraries to television. Eric Hoyt argues that film
libraries became valuable not because of the introduction of new
technologies but because of the emergence and growth of new
markets, and suggests that studying the history of film libraries
leads to insights about their role in the contemporary digital
marketplace.
The history begins in the mid-1910s, when the star system and
other developments enabled a market for old films that featured
current stars. After the transition to films with sound, the
reissue market declined but the studios used their libraries for
the production of remakes and other derivatives. The turning point
in the history of studio libraries occurred during the mid to late
1940s, when changes in American culture and an industry-wide
recession convinced the studios to employ their libraries as profit
centers through the use of theatrical reissues. In the 1950s,
intermediary distributors used the growing market of television to
harness libraries aggressively as foundations for cross-media
expansion, a trend that continues today. By the late 1960s, the
television marketplace and the exploitation of film libraries
became so lucrative that they prompted conglomerates to acquire the
studios.
The first book to discuss film libraries as an important and often
underestimated part of Hollywood history, "Hollywood Vault"
presents a fascinating trajectory that incorporates cultural,
legal, and industrial history.
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