Digital Tech Didn’t Democratize the Film Industry w/ Will Tavlin
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The film industry has always been run by monopolies, even since the edison days in the very early 19 hundred. The studio system starts to take shape around 19 14 when you have these distributors who are also exhibitors. They start to really ramp up production andm become these vertically integrated companies known as majors. And this lets them put a strangle hold, really, on any kind of independent image making at this time. But what follows is basically a process of dindustrialization where, when we refer to the studio system collapsing, its basically this factory line becoming a more dispersed and a less concentrated in hollywood.
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