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sound was first brought into films by the Warner brothers company. Before they decided to use sound the idea of making films with sounds appalled many other studious. It did so because adding sound would for one mean the production of movies would become more expenisive and that the studios would need to build sound rooms. Also many of the major stars were not strong speakers and their voices would not fit the film aliases that audience were used to. Warner brothers added sound to their movies because they were not doing well money wise and needed something that would keep them afloat and sound might just do that. When they added sound people lined up around blocks to buy tickets for a film with sound. Seeing the success of Warner Brothers the other studios had no choice but to add sound as well. Because sound was added many of the famous stars had to go to voice and diction lessons if they wanted to keep there jobs as actors. Many actors left the bussiness as they couldnt make the transitions. Also thousadns of musicians were laid off because they no longer needed to play the background music for films as the music only had to be recorded once. Sound also affected the production and style of music. Movies became boring and unimaginative because simply having sound was enough to have audience buy tickets. Also shots lost their old creativity as the Cameras couldn't move as they were incased in sound proof boxes to stop the microphone from picking up the noise of the camera. shots were static and not as detailed as actors had to be close to the microphone and there was only one microphone.

Many studios during the 1930-1950's adopted a factory sytme in which they produced films. From this sytem they had all mempers of production under contract for however many films they were to produce and those members were not allowed to work for any other studio without their original studios permission. This factory system allowed for studios to produce quality films in a well organized factory like system. However the factory system did have some dark sides. Many studios adopted a policy called block booking. This policy had theaters taken in many low quality films in order to be able to show the few high quality films. It was one of the ways the Studios tried to gain control over the  film empire. Another way was Blind bidding, where smaller chains would bid on unfinished products from the major studios.