Thomas Ince and the Hearst "Coverup" (Fake News: Fact-Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 9)
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The Rise of Ins Productions
Ince became convinced that the way to justify higher overhead and make higher profits was to focus on making fewer, longer, higher quality films. He also took control of 18 thousand acres of land in the foothills around what is now the intersection of sunset boulevard and pacific coast highway. Use this land would visually distinguish his westerns from those made by his competitors. And the area became known as insville. Ins thought it was good business to cast japanese actors as japanese characters but he was still ultimately a white man collaborating with other white men to make movies primarily enjoyed by white audiences. Ince's signature was what became known as the ince punch, a climactic
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