→Signup for your FREE trial to The Great Courses Plus here: http://ow.ly/ixNM30beNK6 →Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 →How "Dick" came to be short for 'Richard': https://youtu.be/BH1NAwwKtcg?list=PLR0XuDegDqP2Acy6g9Ta7hzC0Rr3RDS6q Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! The Great Courses Plus is currently available to watch through a web browser to almost anyone in the world and optimized for the US market. The Great Courses Plus is currently working to both optimize the product globally and accept credit card payments globally. In this video: In 1948, the Supreme Court ended the stranglehold Hollywood studios and distributors had on the U.S. movie market. Declaring the big eight a monopoly and ordering them to divest of their ownership of movie theaters and cease other non-competitive practices, with U.S. v. Paramount Pictures, et al., the Court opened the movie industry to independent producers and theaters, and indelibly changed the way we see films (and the films we see). Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/11/united-states-v-paramount-movie-theater-concessions-got-expensive/ Sources: http://www.cobbles.com/simpp_archive/ftc-case_into.htm http://www.vulture.com/2012/09/hollywoods-box-office-problem.html http://www.thewrap.com/movies/column-post/joe-roth-time-let-studios-own-theaters-16916/ http://www.cobbles.com/simpp_archive/paramountdoc_1946equity.htm http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/us-supreme-court-decides-paramount-antitrust-case http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Paramount_Pictures,_Inc. http://aclu.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=363 http://www.marketplace.org/topics/business/ive-always-wondered/why-does-popcorn-movies-cost-so-much http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/movie-distribution.htm Image Credit: https://www.bigstockp