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A 1948 ruling broke the studios grip

The Paramount decrees forced the big studios to sell their cinema chains For years the major studios owned the cinemas that showed their films and sold them in blocks, so independent exhibitors had to book a year of pictures to get the few they wanted. In 1948 the Supreme Court upheld an antitrust case, and the studios agreed to separate production from exhibition. The old system unravelled through the 1950s. It sits in Mondo's movies & tv collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: The Paramount decrees forced the big studios to sell their cinema chains. The figure is taken from National Archives, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a movies & tv fact?: Yes. It sits on the Movies & TV shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.