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An independent film, or indie film, is a film that is produced outside of the Hollywood studio system, a series of monopolistic practices by several major American film studios (MGM, Paramount Pictures, RKO, Warner Bros. and Twentieth Century Fox) which controlled the production, distribution, and exhibition of films in the US from the early 1920s through 1950s. Though its monopolistic practices were officially ended by the Paramount Decision in 1948, four of the five Golden Age majors (RKO is... full article at wikipedia
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Created by Metaweb Oct 22, 2006
Last edited by mw_prop_bot Aug 20, 2008

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