This “studio system” continued until independent producers (including Samuel Goldwyn and Walt Disney, among others) challenged this system and a case against the major studios went all the way to the Supreme Court. In 1948 the Supreme Court ruled that the studio structure constituted a monopoly and was no longer legal. They could no longer be immersed in every step of creation and production as well as the owners of the distribution platforms. That was the beginning of the end for the studio system.
