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Did Uncle Sam kill the UK film industry?
Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 3:27 pm
by supsim96
According to my late stepfather, it could be argued that the Americans killed-off the hugely successful 1930's-1950's British Film Industry with their refusal to release UK films into their domestic market.
Does anyone have any thoughts on that theory?
I'm intrigued to get hold of some evidence so to speak, especially now that Mr/Ms "UK Consumer" seems perfectly happy to gorge on the "99%-shite"/"1% decent" quotient of films released by Hollywood.
Si
Save the world, shoot a lawyer.
Re: Did Uncle Sam kill the UK film industry?
Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 4:32 pm
by andy at handiwork
Well it could be argued that the domestic market in the US didn't want parochial British pictures, so distributors there weren't prepared to risk money showing them.
Re: Did Uncle Sam kill the UK film industry?
Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 4:39 pm
by supsim96
People in the UK listen to American music and watch US films which are as parochial as anywhere on earth. That viewing/listening behaviour has never been reciprocated by our American cousins though. Insularity is seldom a good thing.
Re: Did Uncle Sam kill the UK film industry?
Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 4:42 pm
by planeterotica
As soon as the U.S. decided to join the allies in WW2 the only films they wanted to see were those that showed them winning the war !wink!
Re: Did Uncle Sam kill the UK film industry?
Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 4:49 pm
by supsim96
well, according to Hollywood, the great success of the "American" Enigma project did have a significant impact on the battle of the Atlantic.
They should be ashamed! What an insult to the brilliance of Alan Turing and his colleagues at Bletchley Park.
Re: Did Uncle Sam kill the UK film industry?
Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 5:04 pm
by planeterotica
supsim96 wrote:
> well, according to Hollywood, the great success of the
> "American" Enigma project did have a significant impact on the
> battle of the Atlantic.
>
> They should be ashamed! What an insult to the brilliance of
> Alan Turing and his colleagues at Bletchley Park.
planeterotica wrote:
It was Turing who invented the computer, yes a British invention and not invented by Bill Gates as the yanks would have us believe, so how diid the British goverment reward Turing, they threatened to expose him as a queer which was illegal at the time so he topped himself.
Re: Did Uncle Sam kill the UK film industry?
Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 7:58 pm
by planeterotica
Reggie Perrin wrote:
> Turing didn't invent the computer directly, he was an innovator
> in the field of artificial intelligence. He was also made to
> take oestrogens, the idea that taking female homones would make
> him less of a male homosexual (?) He grew breasts. Monstrous
> way to treat people.
>
planeterotica wrote:
He was a poof and he did invent the computer, i am not a poof but if it hadnt been for the likes of Turing we wouldnt be having this conversation.