<P> The studio system was challenged under the anti-trust laws in a 1948 Supreme Court ruling which sought to separate production from the distribution and exhibition and ended such practices , thereby hastening the end of the studio system . By 1954 , with television competing for audience and the last of the operational links between a major production studio and theater chain broken , the historic era of the studio system was over . </P>
<P> The studio system was challenged under the anti-trust laws in a 1948 Supreme Court ruling which sought to separate production from the distribution and exhibition and ended such practices , thereby hastening the end of the studio system . By 1954 , with television competing for audience and the last of the operational links between a major production studio and theater chain broken , the historic era of the studio system was over . </P>
one of the biggest factors responsible for the collapse of the studio era was
one of the biggest factors responsible for the collapse of the studio era was
a 1948 Supreme Court ruling which sought to separate production from the distribution and exhibition
a 1948 Supreme Court ruling which sought to separate production from the distribution and exhibition