The Golden Age Ends

 What caused the end of the golden age of Hollywood? What was so significant about this change in its history?

   As the economy after the Great Depression improved, the government decided to limit the big studios’ grip on distributing films. In July of 1938, they filed another suit against seven studios: Paramount, Loew’s, RKO, Warner Bros., 20th Century Fox, Columbia and Universal and on United Artists. But, the trial was stopped two weeks after it began. On November 20, 1940, the groups reached a compromise, stating that the studios could keep ownership of the theaters, but inhibited block booking. Block booking was a term used to define a practice in which movie studios forced theaters to buy multiple films as a group, even if the theaters didn't show them all. This was common in Hollywood from the early 1930s but was outlawed in 1948.