 GbcueAlmost P.E.Premium
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Re: I know this sounds crazy said by Transmaster:Watching a movie like Avitar on an iTouch ya..right. I wouldn't pay ten cents for this pleasure. Why is anyone suprised by this crap from the MPAA and the studios. This business has been filled with a bunch of cut throat crooks from it's very beginnings when it started in New York City a 100 years ago. The reason why some of these early production companies moved to the then gated community of Hollywood Land was to put 2300 miles between themselves and the mafia like studios in New York which often sent thugs around to these "independent" studios to browbeat and physically assult their employees with beatings and shootings. There where several studios that were burnt to the ground with arson fires. Incidently the actors working at these studios where then called Movies because they where always on the move between studios in New York and Southern California, this is where the term "Movie" came from it has nothing to do with moving pictures. Study their history and you will not be suprised at anything the movie industry does. Citation needed greatly.
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 TransmasterDon't Blame Me I Voted For Bill and Opus
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4 edits | = Gbcue  Citation needed greatly. 
It is fascinating!
The Movie cartel in New York which was trying to drive these independents out of business sent one of their thugs out to Hollywood Land to strong arm one of these studios he flashed a revolver at the director during the making of a Western during filming, he did not realize the Cowboys on the set where the real thing and where armed themselves, he found himself with a bunch of rifles and pistols pointed at him, this incident was even incorporated into this Western. 
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Also read An Empire Of Their Own by Neal Gabler. It's one of the best books I've ever read about the history of the film industry.
Ironically, though, back at the beginning, it wasn't the studios so much as the Edison Trust that created most of the issues:
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TransmasterDon't Blame Me I Voted For Bill and Opus
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Cheyenne, WY | Exactly the Edison Trust was the cartel in New York that used the strong arm tactics. A group of largest studios got to gather under the Edison banner and decided to force everyone else out. If you Study Thomas Edison he was not a nice guy he ripped so many people out of patients and ideas.
I am still looking for the BBC program It is somewhere on 5 gigs worth of hard drives. I can't remember the exact name of the series so none of my searches have found it, grrrr I want to watch it again myself.
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