Re: I know this sounds crazy -

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Desdinova Premium join:2003-01-26 Gaithersburg, MD	reply to Gbcue Re: I know this sounds crazy 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: »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Pic···_Company
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Transmaster Don't Blame Me I Voted For Bill and Opus join:2001-06-20 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. -- I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's. - Mark Twain in Eruption
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Studios Want More Aggressive MPAA > I know this sounds crazy