Bullets & Blood: A Hollywood Epic - Part 2

The Secret History Of Hollywood

Adam Roche

Tv & Film, Film History

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🗓️ 11 December 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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The original Hollywood epic Bullets And Blood tells the sometimes unbelievable, but true tale, of a Hollywood dynasty, every bit as thrilling, shocking and dramatic as any Hollywood blockbuster. In part The Warner brothers have arrived in Hollywood, but with dwindling finances, and their rival studios determined to cut their careers short, they need a breakout hit in order to succeed. Sam Warner has become enchanted with the notion of sound movies. He has also fallen in love with a young dancer named Lina Basquette... To gain instant access to the entire series, as well as hundreds more hours of Hollywood storytelling and much more, simply sign up now at https://www.patreon.com/attaboysecret Sign up now and unlock an entire universe of Hollywood legends! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:48.2	by now the Warner Brothers have become important players in the emerging world of the movies.
0:54.0	The Cascade Theatre had played to capacity audiences every day,
0:58.0	but when Thomas Edison implemented the Edison Trust patterns
1:02.0	during the first decade of the 1900s, essentially placing an exorbitant
1:06.0	tax on the showing of his and his partner's rather unimaginative movies, he unknowingly lit a touch paper amongst America's theatre owners.
1:18.5	By this time, the Warner Brothers had expanded into the business of the film exchange.
1:23.2	Buying up copies of movies wherever they could,
1:26.2	they would rent out films to theatres all over the country on a weekly basis.
1:30.4	They charged a pittance, but the high demand for fresh movies meant that the
1:37.0	exchange was never short of orders and the business was soon turning over a huge
1:41.5	profit.
1:50.8	Desperate to squash this enterprise, Thomas Edison included in his list of trust guidelines. The rule that all exchanges are required to have a license to distribute trust-created
1:56.4	films.
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