Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. In the studio system, an actor, writer, or director could work only for the studio that had his or her contract.
2. Both the number of movie tickets being sold and the dollar value of all movie tickets being sold are headed steadily up.
3. Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo wrote screenplays under an assumed name while he was blacklisted in Hollywood for being a communist.
4. After World War II, movie attendance declined due to competition from television.
5. Steven Spielberg’s movies The Post and Ready Player One had very different box office totals, but both managed to make a modest return on investment.

1. True
2. False
3. True
4. True
5. True

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