Did Uncle Sam kill the UK film industry?

[planeterotica]

Captain Wow wrote:

> Turing did not invent the computer, that was Charles Babbage.
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> Please feel free to prove me otherwise.

planeterotia wrote:

This is shite !wink! anyone could have invented this !wink!

[Jonone]

It's said that the Apple logo is a homage to Turing who killed himself by eating an apple poisoned with cyanide.

[Floydoid]

Reggie Perrin wrote:

> Do you remember Tangerine computers...?

No, but I remember Apricot computers.

No one person invented the computer, but Alan Turing was a great pioneer, his mathematical models made their development possible. He also came up with the Turing Test, which is still used today.

[The Last Word]

Jonone wrote:

> It's said that the Apple logo is a homage to Turing who killed
> himself by eating an apple poisoned with cyanide.

Maybe, but before this Apple used a logo of Isaac Newton under an apple tree, so it probably originates from that.

Also, Apple's founders were big Beatles fans.

[strawberrycheescake]

During WW2 all the films made in England were forced to go through unfair and rigorous censoring to be sure all resources possible were winning hearts and minds. There was no room for independent filmmakers to release good cinema unless it conformed to the standards set by the BBFC on behalf of the home office. The government was very scared that our enemies would use the powerful medium as propaganda to create sympathisers. The home office and the BBFC have always had a close relationship with each other ever since its creation. It wasn?t long before a script vetting process was put into place. No extreme ideas or political expression were aloud unless it benefited the war effort.
While all this was going on, the country was overrun with American films that were exempt from this vetting process. It wasn?t long before no body wanted to watch British cinema as it was dull and spoon fed rubbish. Meanwhile American films were rich with adventure and sex. Cowboys and Indians and Chicago gangster flicks helped the British public escape from the hardships of war torn Britain. Hollywood established itself in England as a provider of great entertainment and has been here ever since.
It?s a shame that they couldn?t keep it up. Now we are bombarded with what I like to call conveyor belt Hollywood. Films churned out for the sake of it. Re making old classics for a hit or miss chance of making a dollar. This huge money maker was established during a time when it was needed to keep our spirits up or as an escape. A time when we needed them. Nowadays we don?t need them and they know it. They are desperate to make us want it and they are hardly subtle about it. And the films reflect how they are struggling to get back on top. The constant pressure to churn out films that are guaranteed to work, has created a writing drought. Our screens are filled with talent less arseholes provided to us by a vanity driven industry. Talent means nothing anymore, not if you have the right look. Originality has been replaced by greed. And who suffers for it. Luckily only themselves because we aren?t a bunch of stupid sheep. We demand better quality and they are struggling to keep up. Yes uncle Sam has destroyed British cinema but they are destroying themselves through lack of care or pride.

[supsim96]

an enlightening piece there strawb . . . . . .

[andy at handiwork]

Both '49th Parallel' and 'The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp' were made and released under official disaproval, and in the case of the latter, Churchill wanted it supressed. Thankfully in both cases saner council prevailed.