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What Is the Paramount Decree?

The Paramount Decree was a Supreme Court decision from 1948 and it led to these huge changes and shakeups in the movie industry. It broke up the sort of vertical monopoly that studios had. Hollywood during its golden age operated on something called the studio system which meant that a small number of very large studios dominated essentially every aspect of the American film industry.

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