
Bonus episode: The economics of movies
The David McWilliams Podcast
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The Story of James Joyce and the Cinema
Prior to the cinema, the most vibrant entertainment business was the theater. Trieste and Trieste has 28 cinemas in 1905 - a population of about 200,000. They opened 24 hours, seven days a week. It's exactly streaming now. What happens is you get this change in behavior,. which is the cinema. You get this huge surge in demand. People are fascinated. They've never seen cinema scope before. And they've never seen people on screen. So you get this huge, huge increase in demand. This is the story of streaming. The story of now TV. It's the story of all sorts of change in entertainment business that Joyce is sitting in. We won't
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