In relation to the Package Unit System...
When it came about, or left, or what? and a direct description of how it works?
From what I have taken from it, it is an assembly-line sort of set up for the production and distribution of the studios. But, for some reason I haven't caught on to whether or not this system is still in progress. Maybe this is a dumb question, but something I need to be cleared up briefly before any tests.
to be continued...
1 comment:
Good question.
The organization of the industry during the heyday of the studio system was called the "unit producer system." An example would be the Arthur Freed / musical unit at MGM. Freed was in charge of all the musicals produced there.
As the studio system broke up, independent producers (outside the studios) became more important. The package unity system describes how film projects were put together. Someone (a producer or an agent) would assemble a package of a script, director, and stars; he/she would then take that package/project around to studios looking for funding and a distribution deal (because the studios still controlled distriubtion).
The unit producer system was more like an assembly line (Freed chruning out musicals). The package unit system consists of a series of one-at-a-time projects.
The package unit system still more or less describes how projects are put together today.
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