The New Order, 1955–68

Abstract

We have already seen (Chapter 10) that after the war and divorcement, independent production became an increasingly common way of making feature films. By the late 1950s, with admissions falling, well over half of American releases were being produced in this way and the proportion was rising.¹ Thus in some ways the industry at large was adopting a business model long since established at United Artists, which for decades had been distributing the work of such producers. But in the 1950s the business practice of even that company was altering.