1.   Independent films are, broadly defined, movies that appeal to sophisticated audiences, usually produced outside the traditional studio system.

2.   Movie stars used to be slaves to the studio system.

3.   As a director and producer working outside the studio system, Corman has a record as one of the most commercially successful filmmakers in Hollywood.

4.   As an independent producer, he helped sabotage the studio system that made him, at one time, the highest-paid actor in the world.

5.   Before the collapse of the studio system, extraordinarily powerful publicity chiefs, like Howard Strickling at MGM, controlled almost every snippet of information for three decades.

6.   Burns has found his way around the studio system.

7.   But over the years, as the studio system crumbled and the apparatus of moviemaking grew larger, opening credits became more crowded.

8.   But the decades-old studio system that Elliott signed on with collapsed two years later.

9.   But these are all, of course, pictures made outside the studio system.

10.   But with the collapse of the studio system, film schools began to take over the training of young filmmakers.