What were the most important of these pressures, and how did these pressures ultimately undermine the power base that had stabilized the studio system for nearly half a century?

Starting in the time shortly before World War II, and accelerating in the twenty years after the war, a variety of internal and external pressures eventually led to the decline of the studio system that had organized the American film industry since shortly after production companies first began to relocate to Hollywood. What were the most important of these pressures, and how did these pressures ultimately undermine the power base that had stabilized the studio system for nearly half a century?

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