As the popularity of movies rose into the 1920s and 1930s, systems were put into place to help regulate the films being produced by each of the major studios. This initial regulation system became known as “the studio system”. The studio system was a strategy employed by the eight major studios to better regulate their businesses in order to help protect them from any potential risks or setbacks during production. During the Golden Age of Hollywood in the 1930s and 1940s, the active film production companies were categorized into four classifications: major studios, minor studios, “B” (Poverty Row) studios, and independent producers. The major studios “followed a top-down hierarchy of control” (Barsam, et al. 471), giving the companies as