The House That Shadows Built (1928)

Record Details:

Title:
The House That Shadows Built
Date:
1928
Publisher:
New York: Doubleday
Volume:
The House That Shadows Built
Leaf #:
000228
Language:
English
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
November 16, 2023
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208 THE HOUSE THAT SHADOWS BUILT combination, Zukor, Lasky, and the new, promising California firm of Bosworth, could by crowding all steam put out 104 pictures a year — two a week. They needed only to unite behind some new combination of distributors. The Trust, distribution system and all, was fast disintegrating. Out of the wreckage, new combinations were taking form. One of these — Paramount — Zukor took pains to hurry along. Presently, Paramount was sending forth a Famous Players-Lasky-Bosworth programme of the desired 104 pictures a year. Of these. Famous Players furnished fifty, Lasky thirty, Bosworth ten, leaving the other fourteen to be picked up from the small but ambitious companies now overrunning all California. Fifty “big” pictures a year strained for the time Zukor’s resources for raising money. But, to keep in the lead, he must expand. That is the plain, statistical statement of a business arrangement which involved much drama, much clash of ruthless, dominant characters. Here, I shall take a new breath and go back again into the past.