For many people, the world of movie-making is filled with magic, and an air of mystery seems to surround it all. Once you break on through to the other side, however, you begin to learn the ins and outs of all things Hollywood. Below we’ll go a little more in-depth as far as the history of movie-making goes, and how film studios figure into the equation. When we say film studio, it may have a slightly different meaning depending on the context. Some folks use the terms movie studio, film studio, and production studio interchangeably.
A film studio often refers to an entertainment company that has the creative components of a production company as well as the privately-owned facilities used to shoot films. A film studio can also simply mean the specially-equipped building in which movies are shot, regardless of whether it is part of a larger all-encompassing media company. Some folks conflate production company with film studio, but as alluded to above, that’s not always the case. The reason people may perceive everything to happen under one roof could be due to the fact that major film studios (and even movie theaters) were owned by production companies during the so-called “Golden Age” of Cinema between the late 1920s and 1940s.
